Re: [CR]Date this Viscount!?

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Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:57:43 -0500
From: "Joe Bender-Zanoni" <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Date this Viscount!?
To: Paul Williams <castell5@sympatico.ca>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
References: <004401c4de61$1c3759c0$6400a8c0@gc.ca.pch.gc.ca>


Before you had a Viscount, Lambert had to go bust. This bike sounds very early. Does it have the aluminium fork? Does it have a big honking metal plug up the middle? Then I guess 1974.

One of the more amusing jobs must have been that of the Viscount salesman. Walking into the ex-Lambert dealer and trying to get them to have another go was a tough gig. But no tougher than the CCM guys who visited us once (gappiest lugs of all time) or the guys trying to sell Browning bikes.

Joe Bender-Zanoni Great Notch, NJ

Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ


----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Williams
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 9:36 PM
Subject: [CR]Date this Viscount!?



> Okay Viscount folks,
>
> Yes I am the one on Viscount Avenue in Ottawa who got Mark's Viscount recently as a winter project.
>
> It came with a Viscount chainset, hubs, stem, brake levers marked Lambert, GB 77 calipers, Shimano 500 RD, Shimano 50 FD, Shimano FW, Nisi(?) rims, Tange headset ...
>
> It is white with faux lugs painted on in red - similar to the one on Dale's Lambert/Viscount page.
>
> Is this mix of parts of the right vintage for what seems to be an early to mid-70s Viscount? What is the date of the derailleurs? Could they be original? It is missing gear levers - these seem to have been bar-ends and the cable-guide on the downtube is Huret!
>
> Paul Williams (back into the bike thing after a break)
> Ottawa, ON, Canada