[CR]Vintage of another Falcon San Remo?

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Ideale)

To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Neal Lerner" <nlerner@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 20:28:46 -0500
Subject: [CR]Vintage of another Falcon San Remo?

Peter Kohler's outing of his extraordinary Falcon San Remo prompts me to seek assistance to date a not-as-nice Falcon San Remo that I recently acquired. Pics are here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/lerner.n/FalconSanRemo

The lugs, fork crown, and seat stay treatment are all nearly identical to Dale's brown Falcon shown on the CR Falcon page; however, mine is straight gauge Reynolds 531 as indicated by the Reynolds decal I show (takes a 26.2 mm seatpost), and it also came with a cottered bottom bracket spindle installed. Other features include a lamp bracket on the left-side fork, an oiler hole on the underside of the bottom bracket shell, and no derailleur hanger. Serial #J19204 is on the underside of the BB shell. It's all chrome underneath the paint, and the overall finishing is pretty rough. I would think those features point to early 1960s, perhaps close to the 1960 debut of this model, but I'm hoping for more educated guesses than I can muster.

Thanks,

Neal Lerner
Brookline, MA
USA