I assembled a new steel one for a customer last month; he bought the frame
mail order and it's a modern, scary-light/stupid light oval downtube
Columbus set, the one with creases on the outside of the chainstays. Yeah,
not as pretty as the old ones with the star cutouts and probably won't last
as long!
DF
> In a message dated 12/2/01 10:18:39 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> DTSHIFTER@aol.com writes:
>
> <<
> Does anyone know the history of Viner? Who was/were the builder(s)? Any
> original decals still available? >>
>
> Not much history, but they were imported fairly vigorously by Gus Betat
> Imports in New Orleans, which at one time was an important source for all
the
> cool stuff, Campagnolo, etc.
> There were a number of models at different price levels , with the top of
the
> line model called the "Stella" with cool star cutouts in lugs etc.
> Seems like Viner may be still in biz with the usual boring, anonymous tig
> welded aluminum frames... Yes, here they are:
>
> http://www.viner.it
>
> They might respond to a polite request for replacement decals...
>
>
>
> Dale Brown
> Greensboro, North Carolina
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