[CR]Garin and Vindec bikes

(Example: Racing:Jean Robic)

To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Russ Fitzgerald" <velocio@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 15:03:27 -0400
Subject: [CR]Garin and Vindec bikes

Let's see - was the Garin bike Jean Diederich is riding in Aldo's pic o' the day from a company named for Maurice Garin? If so, there's another make named after a racer.

In Lou Deeter's list of U-V brands, I noted no comments next to Vindec. Wasn't that a house brand for the British firm of Brown Brothers, publishers of lovely catalogs full of wholesale bike parts? It seems to me their jazziest model was a 3-speed Sports kinda bike - but 1952 was the last of their catalogs I've seen. Was it Bruce Robbins or Bob Reid who did those lovely CDs of those catalogs? My memory is failing me here ...

Russ Fitzgerald
Greenwood, SC