The Nisi rims were original on many Lamberts and Viscounts. Your Viscount is an early one, as evidenced by the Lambert name on some parts. Please check that your fork has a big heavy plug up the middle of the steerer if you intend to ride it. It could be so early as not to have this remedy for the Lambert death fork.
The frames are light and whippy. I cyclocrossed one for a few years and then sold it to a friend as his sole source of transport for years. They are sort of like early light frames from the turn of the century. Scary flexible but they don't break.
Joe Bender-Zanoni Great Notch, NJ "Always reticent to divulge knowledge of Lamberts and Viscounts"
> Dear list members,
> I picked up a 70's vintage Viscount with 27" Nisi Evian rims......I read
through 16 pages (over 400 posts) in THE ARCHIVES,concerning the
LAMBERT-Viscount saga.
> It was a little bit of a walk back in time, some of the list members whose
"archival posts" I read are no longer with us (Mike Richardson,
> Chris Beyer, and Dave Staub).
> Time has really flown but the CR list has been a great pastime for me over
the last several years.
> Thanks Dale for providing this forum, and to the folk(s) who archive all
this information and facts.
>
> Anyways if anyone has any information on the Evian clincher rims (the
label says "light alloy" and NISI Evian) that came on my newly acquired
Viscount I would appreciate it. Are these the original rims for the Viscount
bicycle? The 27" rims are laced to Viscount high flange hubs
> I did find that Curtis at Via Cycles has NOS Evian tubular rims for sale
at "BIKEVILLE.COM".He states on his website the tubulars are from the 50's
and 60's.
> The Viscount bicycle seems to have evolved from LAMBERT around 1972 to
1973.
> The Viscount bicycle I have seems fairly original with the small cage
Shimano CRANE rear derailleur and the Shimano Titlist front derailleur (
which came out around 1972/1973 if I'm not mistaken) Viscount center pull
brakes, a LAMBERT crankset.The original leather saddle is missing.
> The frame is the fillet style frame with the aluminum fork, mated to a
steel steerer (THANKS KEN TODA for the informative photos of the "INFAMOUS
DEATH" fork in the CR LAMBERT -VISCOUNT section of Great Britain).
>
> The bicycle weighs in at 23 lbs. according to my bathroom scales. Not bad
for a real budget bicycle of the time with clincher rims and tires.
>
> Yours truly,
> Marty Walsh in Vienna,Virginia