Larry Hakim wrote:
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> First of all I'd like to thank those who said hello both publicly and
> privately after my initial post.
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> Now on to topic: one of the most beautiful bikes I ever saw was a "Paul
> Egli" made in Switzerland. I saw the bike circa 1971-72 in the Detroit area.
> It had nervex lugs, and was made with Reynolds 531 DB. The paint was
> unique--a beautiful deep metallic blue that faded into white at certain
> points and LOTS of two color pinstriping everywhere. Oddly I can't remember
> if it had any chrome or not, But it was obviously a high quality bike.
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> I've never seen another Paul Egli since then and can't find out anything
> about this marque on the internet although I've learned that Egli was a
> Swiss bicycle racer so I'm assuming the bike was named after him.
>
> At any rate I'm wondering if anyone else here has seen or owned a Paul Egli
> and could share some info on the company's history etc. Even better would be
> a link to some photos of the actual bikes.
Larry, sorry but I can't help you out with the Egli question. But there are lots of beautiful Swiss vintage race bikes on Stefan Schaefter's web site "Speedbicycles" at <http://www.speedbicycles.ch>. Stefan is a collector in Switzerland and the "museum" section of his web site has the most professional photos I've seen on the web. Many, many detail shots of each bike and bikes from many different eras are shown. An AMAZING resource.
Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California http://www.velo-retro.com (Timelines, Catalog Reprints and T-shirts)
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