Oops, apologies to Rita Van Dingenen. The Groene Leeuw previously linked is her bike...
Here is the correct link to Tom's Groene Leeuw track bike:
http://www.wooljersey.com/
Charlie Young
Honey Brook, PA
USA
superstitions
> Tom Hayes has photos of a lovely Groene Leeuw up on Wool Jersey:
>
> http://www.wooljersey.com/
>
> Well, Tom, is it fast for a green bike?
>
> Charlie "My BRG Ron Cooper is fast, I'm slow" Young
> Honey Brook, PA
> USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven L. Sheffield" <stevens@veloworks.com>
> To: "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 11:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [CR]Green Bikes and superstitions
>
>
>> On 3/4/07 9:38 AM, "Jerome & Elizabeth Moos" <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> So then was Grone Leeuw an ale produced by Weil's? Does this brewer
>>> still
>>> exist?
>>
>>
>> Wiel's (sorry, not Weil's) was a brewery (Wielemans-Ceuppens). The
>> building
>> is currently being turned into a contemporary art center in Brussels.
>> Wielemans-Ceuppens apparently went out of business in 1988.
>>
>> http://www.wiels.org/
>>
>> Groene Leeuw was the top-end brand coming out of bicycle manufacturer De
>> Kimpe, which was based in Deinze. I don't have much information other
>> than
>> that, except that in the 1970s, there was also an Avia-Groene Leeuw team.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Steven L. Sheffield
>> stevens at veloworks dot com
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