Re: [CR]Re: Odd-weird-interesting-scary NOS 1972 Czech bike & saddle

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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:33:57 -0400
From: "Elizabeth & Warren" <warbetty@eastlink.ca>
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Odd-weird-interesting-scary NOS 1972 Czech bike & saddle
In-reply-to: <255642.10787.qm@web82212.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
To: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
References: <255642.10787.qm@web82212.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

There were many Favorits imported into Canada in the bike boom years and the quality was approriately terrible. Heavy dead steel frames. All the components on the bikes were branded Favorit. As seen in the pictures, the brakes were Mafac Racer knockoffs. Shifters were ala Simplex. I've have many chances to own one of these but the quality was always worse than department store bikes.

Chain quality was the exception to the rule. As John mentioned, the motorcycle industry was strong and there was likely some technology crossover. I have a few of NIB Favorit chains including the larger 3/16 X 1/2" for the oversized roadster cranks. Very decent.

Warren Young Wolfville, Nova Scotia

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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> Jerry Moos
> Big Spring, TX
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>That is a funny-cool-weird-odd-scary bike! These "Iron curtain" companies are sort of like Yugos.. They LOOK normal but are still distinctly Third World when it comes to machining tolerances, etc.
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>One thing bothered me in this auction.. Ths seller appears knowledgeable so why would he say "Has a really nice leather seat made by Brooks or Ideale I suppose." He knows that is pure BS. Troubling... What else is BS in what he says?
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>Dale Brown
>Greensboro, North Carolina USA