Re: [CR]LeJeune rear track fork ends

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Avocet)

Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:46:26 -0600
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]LeJeune rear track fork ends
References: <20061211055718.15598.qmail@web30605.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061211055718.15598.qmail@web30605.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


Fred Rafael Rednor wrote:
> Lynn Travers was kind enough to find and point out this LeJeune
> track frame on eBay. It happens that my bike has the same
> frame (ina smaller size), and these are the only 2 LeJeune
> bikes I've seen with this style rear fork end.
>
> Does anyone know who made these fork ends? Have you seen them
> on other frames? I even asked Mel Pinto about them last year,
> and his answer was basically that they were made "somewhere in
> France." (Those weren't his exact words, but you all probably
> get the picture.)
>
> The bike in question:
> eBay item # 290059547797
>
> http://ebay.com/<blah

Those look like Zeus to me. C.f.:

http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/broderir/Catalogs-Posters/Zeus/1982-A/Page+15.jpg.html

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John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA