Peter, i have to disagree: the crescent is pretty fancy. looks pretty clean
and functional, quite nice. were they all or mostlhy orange? don't know
if ive seen them in any other color, kind of like the early celeste bianchi
s?
can't see the Monark, only the 1st photo will show on my IBM.
thanks for sharing the pix.
devon warner
sanfrancisco, USA
> From: Peter Söderlund <peso@glocalnet.net>
\r?\n> Subject: [CR]Cresent before pepita special
\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
\r?\n> Date: Friday, September 12, 2008, 3:54 AM
\r?\n> Hi, I was out today riding on my Crescent from around 1950,
\r?\n> so I took
\r?\n> some pictures of it. It is not a fancy bike. It is built in
\r?\n> lug less
\r?\n> chrome molybdenum steel and has simplex gears, but all the
\r?\n> bearings are
\r?\n> excellent, so it still offers a nice ride after almost 60
\r?\n> years.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> The bike is essential of the same type which The Swedish
\r?\n> rider Harry
\r?\n> Snell used when he won the World championship in Holland
\r?\n> 1948, direct
\r?\n> after that Crescent labelled their bikes with the word
\r?\n> "
\r?\n> Världsmästarcykeln" = The world champion bike. I
\r?\n> don't know why
\r?\n> Crescent waited up to that time to label their bike in that
\r?\n> way. They
\r?\n> have had success before, the Danish rider Henry Hansen took
\r?\n> gold in the
\r?\n> Olympics in Amsterdam 1928 and won the World championship
\r?\n> in Copenhagen
\r?\n> 1931 on a Crescent bike.
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> You can find pictures on this site:
\r?\n> http://goto.glocalnet.net/
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I also put up a picture of a Monark I have from around 1955
\r?\n> on the site.
\r?\n> Crescent, located in the east of Sweden, and Monark,
\r?\n> located in the west
\r?\n> of Sweden, was the biggest brands and fierce competitors up
\r?\n> to 1961 when
\r?\n> the two brands become one company- MCB.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Today are the brands only small parts in the Swedish
\r?\n> bicycle king
\r?\n> Salvatori Grimaldi´s bike empire Cycleurope, He also owns
\r?\n> the
\r?\n> following bicycle brands: Bianchi, Gitane, Micmo, Puch,
\r?\n> Legnano,
\r?\n> Peugeot, DBS, Kildemoes, Everton, Chiorda, Renault and
\r?\n> Spectra.....
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Kind regards:
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Peter Söderlund
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Gothenburg
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Sweden