All,
My first decent bike, bought from Proteus Design Bicycles in College Park,
Md., circa 1973 was that same Falcon frame, fitted with Sugino Maxi crank,
Suntour rear and Shimano front derailleurs, Weinmann brakes and Campy Tipo/
Weinmann tubular wheels. Pix brought back fond memories.
Earle Young,
Madison, WI
> Nigel,
> The Falcon Milan San Remo was available when I was a
> schoolboy when we still had school milk before that
> cow stole it! This was an eternity ago and would be
> around about 1960/61, if you can get hold of some
> "Cycling's" from around this period they did a road
> test on the San Remo.
> They also offered one as a competition prize and I am
> sure Bill Bush the SVCC stalwart won it wonderful man.
> Think the San Remo was sort of low middle range and
> had a Magistroni chainset, best ask Peter or Hilary as
> they might have some Comics for these years.
> Sorry the best I can do, we also had pits back then
> but she put pay to these as well. Have been in South
> Wales today and the Midlands on Friday what a sad
> sight she did more damage than Adolf's Luftwaffe.
> Take care and be lucky Mick B Hunts UK.
>
> --- NIGEL LAND <ndland@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:01:55 EDT
> > From: FujiFish1@aol.com
> > To: ndland@btinternet.com
> > Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> > Subject: Re: [CR]Ernie Clements Falcon Special (and
> > San Remo too)
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> >
> > I'm jumping in on this thread, because I too have a
> > (still dirty) old
> > beast,
> > of similar description but likely a lower model.
> > Mine is a SAN REMO
> > model,
> > with Campagnolo VELOX components. Just like Bill,
> > I'm interested to
> > know the
> > year of offer, if possible. Does have a 531 decal.
> > I took some quick
> > PICs of
> > it so that the basics can be seen. Light was
> > waning, but I think the
> > idea gets
> > across:
> >
> >
> http://www.wooljersey.com/
> >
> > Remember to click on a thumb, then click on the pic
> > it reveals, in order
> > to
> > see the larger and much clearer versions. (Do I
> > need to keep adding
> > this, each
> > time I supply a link to the Wool Jersey Gallery?)
> >
> > Nigel? ... anybody? ... know the date?
> >
> > Thanks so much!
> >
> > Ciao,
> > Mark Agree
> > Southfield MI US