I built one of these from two NOS partial bikes. Charlie Petry has it now. Favorit had some amazing aspects. For one thing, every single part seems to be made by the Favorit factory. Another aspect is that some components are competent and some are junk, yet made in the same factory. The bottom bracket is very decent, but the hub bearings are pretty bad, etc. THe chain des not mesh particularly well with the freewheel made in the same factory!
Joe Bender-Zanoni Great Notch, NJ
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> 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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> 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