In the mid-sixties I had an old Oscar Egg track tandem. It came with wooden rims. I believe it was pre-WW2.
Pete Rutledge
Woodbridge, VA
> Help!
> Does anybody on the list know about Oscar Egg's bicycles? I have just
> acquired a frame and forks with Osgear drop outs. I know that it is an
Oscar Egg as
> the company thoughtfully stamped the name on the fork crown. Frame number
is
> 10235. In view of the drop outs, I assume that it is just pre-WW2 or just
> post-WW2.. It has a braze-on to accept the Osgear fork and I have an
Osgear to go
> with it. Bottom bracket threads are Imperial rather than French. All I
have
> found out so far is that the shop was in the Avenue de la Grande Armee in
Paris
> and it was still going in the sixties.
> Any help would be gratefully received.
> Stuart Tallack in West Sussex
> Postscript. It can't have been called an Osgear in France, I suppose. Was
it
> known as Super Champion Professional? The drop puts were presumably just
know
> as Oscar Egg drop outs.