Well, I have a late 50's or early 60's Rixie touring bike that seems to me to exhibit both subtle design and high build quality. Unique chromed panel in the center of the top tube, nice period equipment including Stronglight cottered steel crank with Simplex rings. But I guess you could have said the same about Raleigh, but that didn't stop them building the Team Pro, Pro, International and Competition. Or about Schwinn (if you substitute cruiser for black roadster), but they did build the Paramount.
Regards,
Jerry Moos Houston, TX
Toni Theilmeier <Toni.Theilmeier@t-online.de> wrote: Rixe was German allright, Bielefeld made (Northern Germany), not exactly renowned for subtlety in design or extreme building quality, mostly black roadsters, if you know what I mean. Now Rixe are bagde engineered Asian cycles after the original firm went bust.
Regards,
Toni Theilmeier, Belm, Germany.
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