At 05:41 PM 04/02/2007 -0700, cmontgomery wrote:
>Check out the bars on these early 50's Flying Scots. They are similar to
>Peter's and according to one description called South of France bars.
>
>http://www.flying-scot.co.uk/rattray/scot_frames/pages/frame_274b.htm
>
>http://www.flying-scot.co.uk/rattray/scot_frames/pages/frame_33b.html
Yes, those are exactly the unusual bars I remember seeing on Urago bikes in a bike shop window in London in the early fifties. They looked very "Continental", unlike what you usually saw in English bikes. Until recently, I had always thought Urago was Italian.
Here is another picture of those bars from that era:
http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/
John Betmanis
Woodstock, Ontario
Canada