[CR]Early Windsor Professional Components

(Example: Bike Shops)

From: "Marie VanRemortel" <germanyvrs@hotmail.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 18:04:22 +0000
Subject: [CR]Early Windsor Professional Components

All, I had one of the few white Profesionals that I ever saw, it was a longer wheelbase in the 41" range vice the ~39.5 of the others that were silver. It also had low flange hubs when I thought (maybe) the silver road racing gemometry versions had High flange? Aw, maybe not... It was a 23" frame. The shop was in an industrial part of San Jose that I can't recall the name. This White one was claimed to be older but maybe not. No serial number 30+ years later...

Talk about half-baked construction -- the rear dropouts were so visably crooked that it looked like a HS metal shop project. Paint was nice and as a "rich" 12-year old paperboy I was proud to have my first all (except 68's)-Campagnolo NR lightweight! Moved up from a Raligh SuperCorse...

Saddle was the flatter than a Unicanitor Mexico copy, not too good so I put on a Brooks Pro just like my HERO Eddy!

Man, I loved that bike until it was lifted right out of my open garage in mid-afternoon! That's when I rode my first Eisentraut A and I was hooked and ended up with a Limted in 1976... and the rest has been much the same...

Regards, Bruce VanRemortel Wallhalben, Germany (90 minutes from Prologe site in France!!) 80 and Clear, taking the kids to LegoLand again tomorrow.