Wow......I may have built your bike.....I was a mechanic at GTCS at the time whose main attending task was building new bikes......I think the theory was that without all the use and abuse, there was less diagnostics, more 'standard' work in new machines and given the checks and re-checks done to a new bike greater margin for error.......hope yours turned out well
On Dec 17, 2007 10:57 AM, Tom Dalton <tom_s_dalton@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I bought my first 10-speed at GTCS in May 1979. I was just a little too
> late to have caught that event. My closest riding pal was already racing by
> that time, and he told me that he remembers riding in Rock Creek Park the
> week before the event and coming up behind some junior who was out on the
> course. He remembers stitting on the guy's wheel and counting the cogs...
> one, two, three, four, five... SIX! Holly crap SIX cogs! We now know that
> six speed was common back then, but it seemed the ultimate in exotica to my
> then-15-year-old friend at the time.
>
> Tom Dalton
> Bethlehem, PA USA
>
> Dale Brown <oroboyz@aol.com> wrote:
> << By the way, it's my understanding that GTCS provided a bunch of
> spare Alpine bikes to the Junior World's Road Championships held in
> Washington D.C. in 1978. >>
>
> Oh yes!
> That was a very cool event, the road race held in Rock Creek Park (which
> winds it's way through urban Washington DC)
>
> They had paddocks set up for each national team, so you could stroll
> along and see the masseuses and mechanics at work in the compounds of Italy,
> France, Barbados, etc.
>
> The support bikes were all Alpines and it was a quite festive and
> attractive event.
>
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>
> Dale Brown
> Greensboro, North Carolina USA
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Dalton <tom_s_dalton@yahoo.com>
> To: oroboyz@aol.com; smwillis@verizon.net; classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Sent: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 9:56 am
> Subject: Alpine Labeled track bike
>
> I just want to add to this week-old message, that by the early 80's
> Alpine later was actually making their own frames... but this is not one of
> them. I'm with Dale that it's a rebadged British bike. In addition to the
> brands Dale mentions, I think some Alpines were MKM. Of course, the decals
> were stuck on anything that any GTCS employee or Alpine Team rider was
> using, and that included plenty of Serottas, a Cotten, an Aschemacher....
> So, there are "actual Alpines," from the 80's, earlier bikes that were
> re-badged and sold as Alpines, and bikes that were never sold as Alpines but
> that simply bore the decals because of team or shop affiliations. When
> Alpine closed shop, a friend of a friend eneded up with a bunch (all) of the
> old decals. Some went to my froiend, and then to me, and ended up on a
> Centurion that I sold to a Mennonite kid at a swap meet. Anyway, look
> closely once you see the decals.
>
> By the way, it's my understanding that GTCS provided a bunch of spare
> Alpine bikes to the Junior World's Road Championships held in Washington
> D.C. in 1978.
>
> Tom Dalton
> Bethlehem PA USA
>
>
> The Ebay Alpine:
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> http://ebay.com/
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>
> Dalr wrote:
> I am betting that is a Condor or Mercian... This was the MO for
> Georgetown Cycles, the shop where Larry Black started his career & the shop
> who owned that brand....
>
>
> Dale Brown
> Greensboro, North Carolina USA
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