Re: [CR]Viking Path and Oscar Egg lugs

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Subject: Re: [CR]Viking Path and Oscar Egg lugs
From: "Hilary Stone" <hilary.stone@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: <OROBOYZ@aol.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <7c.2e4eed4c.2abb25f1@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:29:06 +0100

Those are not Oscar Egg lugs - they are one of the numerous versions of the Nervex Serie Legere lugs. Oscar Egg style lugs are a good deal plainer - being really from a slightly earlier era.

Hilary Stone in sunny old Bristol, England

Dale Brown wrote:
> In a message dated 9/19/2002 6:52:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> hayesbikes@mail.nls.net writes:
>
> << A Viking "path racer" with track drop-outs
> and fender eyelets. The paint on this appears to be in excellent
> condition, so much so, that I'd guess it to be a repaint ....
> http://ebay.com/<blah>
>>>
>
> That's got to be a repaint... also wrong Reynolds decal (too new) methinks..
>
> But what about that reference to Oscar Egg lugs? Are those? Not what I
> thought they would look like but then again I have never known much about O.
> Egg lugs. Those look rather more ordinary than I expected....