I have what I think is an old touring bike made by Bernard Dangre' It appears to be a custom bike. It was given to me by a friend in college and the story he gave me about the bike was it was ridden in the Tour de France. I doubt that is true, but I cannot find out anything about this bike or who made it. It appears to be French made, but I'm not sure. Can anyone help me with this? Have you heard of Bernard Dangre'? Thanks!

There is a nice picture on Flickr: https://www3.flickr.com/photos/mymigh...cle/162527723/

And there is this bit of history from Classic Rendezvous
https://www.classicrendezvous.com/USA/Paris_Sport.htm
Paris Sport & Victor Cycles were "house brands" name applied to many fine bicycles as sold and distributed by Park Cycle & Sports in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey. Vic Fraysse, with his son, Mike, imported frames and sold them marked as Paris Sport that were sourced, among others, from Bertin, Vitus (Bador) and Starnord, bikes made by Bernard Dangre's company DANGRE-STARNORD, of Valenciennes, northern France. This company also made bikes under the France-Sport and NORD-STAR brands. It also had the rights to the Eddy Merckx name for France.

"..(Starnord was a) relatively small family-owned affairs but they managed to produce a full range of bikes from kid's' tourers and racers right through to serious amateur racing machines. ..... sponsored local semi-pro teams from time to time. An interesting fact about Dangre-Starnord is that the company never kept any stock; it did not have a warehouse. Every frame and cycle built was
ordered by someone, and each customer, regardless of the model, price etc., of their bike and could choose their own spray finish from a range of about 20 colours."
"Both Dangre..(was) on the route of the Paris - Roubaix classic, ... being just around the corner from the first 'ravitaillement' zone on the route." Norris Lockley

And click here if you read French:
https://fr.answers.yahoo.com/question...7100542AAkU7Sr

Wow this is more info than I have ever found. Any way to contact the company? I have looked onlie, but so far, nothing... I'd like to trace the serial number on the bike and find out it's history. Any thoughts would be helpful. Thanks!

I live in NJ and have been to more than one garage sale offering Paris Sports. However, they have always looked like very low-end bikes with stamped dropouts, "gaspipe" tubing with the top of the stays often open, really ugly looking lugwork, and low-end components. I did find a Paris Sport mixte once (with these same low-end characteristics) that immediately made me think Bertin. So, were all Paris Sports fine bicycles?

Starnord-Dangre from Valenciennes doesn't exist anymore.Starnord had a professional cycling team around 1950 with blue-red jersey.In the sixties it was a smaller mass producer of bikes mostly sold under department stores or post order brands,its own Le Nordiste brand or branded after cycling heroes like Anquetil or from believable hearsay Merckx in 1975 only.
I have a Jacques Anquetil gaspipe 10speed mixte which is an accaptable entry level sport bike,nothing special today but in its day something to be proud of,much better than the single speed or three speed Sturmey Archer bikes 95% of thepeople rode.