Re: [CR]Lejeune tandem from Bicyclesport.

(Example: Racing:Roger de Vlaeminck)

From: "Ken Wallace" <kwallace@cableone.net>
To: "Bicycle Specialties" <mike@bikespecialties.com>
In-Reply-To: <004001c83b48$ad732df0$6401a8c0@Staff>
Subject: Re: [CR]Lejeune tandem from Bicyclesport.
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:32:08 -0700
References: <004001c83b48$ad732df0$6401a8c0@Staff>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

I bought it from BICAS (Bicycle Inter-Community Action and Salvage) so it was a donation. It is blue. Not sure if they know who made the donation.

Ken Wallace, Proprietor Bisbee Bicycle Brothel 63-B Brewery Ave. PO Box 1194 Bisbee, AZ 85603 USA (520) 236-4855 (cell) http://www.bisbeebicyclebrothel.com

On Dec 10, 2007, at 9:21 AM, Bicycle Specialties wrote:
> Ken Wallace wrote:
> A couple of weeks ago I bought a 650 B LeJeune tandem at the Tucson
> Bike Swap. Perhaps the coolest thing about it is the bell. Its
> engraved Bicyclesport Toronto. Anybody know if Mike Barry sold
> LeJeune? It has aluminum mudguards and touring racks.
>
> We sold about a dozen Lejeune tandems at Bicyclesport in 1974.
> (Bicyclesport was the forerunner of Bicycle Specialties). I still have
> one of them. They sold for $1,100 and were all spoken for before they
> arrived.
> I did many great tours on mine including a wonderful trip over the
> French Alps with my eight year old son on the back. The high-light of
> the trip was the ascent of the Ventoux.
> It would be interesting to know how Ken Wallace's one got to Tucson.
> Mike Barry.
> Bicycle Specialties, Toronto.