Re: [CR]More Lambert

(Example: Component Manufacturers)

From: "Diane Feldman" <feldmanbike@home.com>
To: <OROBOYZ@aol.com>, <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <9b.144fa9eb.2820deb9@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]More Lambert
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 08:22:26 -0700


The shift levers look like Benelux and the brakes very much like GB. Was supplying Lambert a last gasp for some British component companies? I know GB made other items into the 1980's, but these are the latest brakes that look like their work. David Feldman


----- Original Message -----
From: OROBOYZ@aol.com
To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 8:53 PM
Subject: [CR]More Lambert



> Many of you may remember, I bought a Lambert on Ebay a few months ago. It
> turned out to be , as I had hoped, one of those very earliest versions that I
> sold as a beginning bike shop employee back in the early 1970s.
> I have published a bunch of (big!) pictures of this bike here:
>
> http://www.classicrendezvous.com/British/lambert_bikes.htm
>
> Notice... the lugs... no sealed bearings except the pedals...... "Lambert" on
> darn near everything including the freewheel... the stainless steel rims...
> The decal exclaiming it to be "the finest bike of its type" by Reg Harris!
>
> I will bring this one out for the Cirque!
>
> Dale Brown
> Greensboro, North Carolina