I am a bit confused about your reference to RIH being in Amsterdam. I have a RIH lugged steel transportation bicycle with a 7 speed Nexus internal hub that served as the basis for my Ukraine bicycles. I visited their factory in Venlo in the south of Holland in 2002. They helped me a lot in finding suppliers for specialized transportation components and samples of frame parts to be made. To keep up with modern economic pressures, they now import aluminum frames from China. I am ignorant of their history but wonder how the factory in Venlo - which now only has transportation bicycles in its catalog - is related to Amsterdam.
Doug Fattic
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:08:10 -0400 From: Rob Vermeer <vermeer@setarnet.aw> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [CR]Dutch translation RIH Message-ID: <005201c51e92$03b3a310$938758d1@ibmcueg3qoyvep> References: <001701c51e82$a6c160c0$6cf9fea9@j4g1x1> <01f701c51e8b$ed723720$0300a8c0@salong> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=original MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Precedence: list Message: 5
Gerrit rides a RIH bicycle. RIH still exists 84 years later and is still made in Amsterdam on the same location by Willem van der Kaaij ex apprentice (he was 11 years old when started to work and was witness of Schulte's world championship) of the original owners and frame builders brothers Bustraan. Their history is crowned by a total of 63 world champions and olympic gold winners. Not even Bianchi can beat this number. Their only product now is steel frames to measure.
Regards,
Rob Vermeer
Aruba