Re: [CR]Early Lugged Lambert/Viking

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From: <joeb-z@comcast.net>
To: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Early Lugged Lambert/Viking
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:57:38 +0000

These threaded BB Lamberts were very early in the game. Maybe only hundreds were made. THese early bikes also had something to do with Ron Kitchings and that's about all I remember.

Joe Bender-Zanoni Whitneyville, Connecticut USA

A loose dog on a wet wooden bridge (Franconia Notch bike trail) led to the hardest fall on a wood surface I've had since velodrome days today. Only a bruised elbow, saved the dog, saved my Redcay. Not even splinters in my arse.

-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
> Just bought this Viking-badged early Lambert:
>
>
> http://ebay.com/<blah>
> 0288978373QQihZ002QQcategoryZ98084QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
> This is a first generation Lambert, with lugged frame, conventional threaded
> BB and tapered crank axle, as opposed to the later Lambert/Viscount/Yamaha bikes
> with lugless frames, pressed in BB's and taperless axles.
>
> These were sold branded a Lambert, Reg Harris or Viking.
>
> Can anyone, perhaps the UK members, explain the connection between Viking and
> Lambert? Supposedly the original Viking operation closed in 1967. Lambert
> might just have bought the name, but there were reports In The Day that the
> early Lamberts we built in a former Viking facility. Or at least some US
> dealers at the time were told such a story. Could Lambert have acquired assets
> aside from just the name? Were there any Viking managers/employees who later
> worked for Lambert?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry Moos
> Bog Spring, Texas, USA