Bob,
These path racers interest me because I have a Viking bike that appears to be from about the fifties, though dating it is only a guess. It has rear track drop-outs, or drop-outs with the openings to the back of the bike. It, however, also has fender mounts--eyelets for mounting fenders on the front and rear, and the front is drilled for accepting a front brake and shows evidence of having brakes mounted on it, while the rear stays have a brake bridge without any evidence of having brakes mounted.
This was sold to me as a "pursuit" bike. On the toptube, there is a decal that reads "The Pursuit Model."
My point in all of this is to ask whether "pursuit" had specific meaning related to "path racers," or it was Viking's proprietary term for this model.
Thank you.
Cheers.
Tom
Whether anyone turned up in 1950, and stripped off their lights,
>brake calliper, brake lever, and mudguards etc. is debatable. Just how many
>would have fitted a freewheel to the machine that having arrived at the
>track meeting would either be removed or the wheels swapped even more
>so.....(though Cyclo did produce nice wee brackets for carrying them)....I
>guess in reality club-level folk turned up with only the front brake to
>remove (Hilary ?)
>
Tom Hayes
18585 Munn Road
Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44023
hayesbikes@nls.net
hayes@jcu.edu