On 12/17/06, Jerome & Elizabeth Moos wrote:
> Who here has actually owned a Favorit? Considering the price In The Day, I'd heard that these bikes weren't all that bad. Czechoslovakia, after all, made the best engineered goods in the old Soviet block, including the AK-47 automatic rifle. As I recall, the Czech AK-47 could fire the same rounds as the American M-16 and a lot of US troops in Vietnam preferred to carry a captured Czech Ak-47 rather than an M-16.
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> Regards,
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> Jerry Moos
> Big Spring, TX
I've seen the occasional comment about Barum tires too as a cheap-but-serviceable sewup option back in the day. Not directly connected to Favorit AFAIK but perhaps somehow related to Tufo?
Peace,
Tim Victor
Greensboro, NC, USA