Re: [CR] Lugged Viscount

(Example: Framebuilders:Alberto Masi)

Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:42:13 -0800
From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
To: <cputman@mail.smu.edu>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, Dickey <ogreer@bellsouth.net>
In-Reply-To: <B6D64FEAC5A449F9A873EFB5A86D89F8@cpugreer>
Subject: Re: [CR] Lugged Viscount


This is a new one to me also. I've never seen a lugged, or partially lugged, Viscount, although I have two lugged Lamberts, one badged as such and another badged as Viking. But I thought all the bikes from the Viscount era of this company were fillet-brazed throughout. I'd question whether this bike is really a Viscount, except that it is stated that the DO's are Lambert, which I doubt would have been used by any other company. It would be interesting to know the full story of this frame - perhaps it is a prototype used by a sponsored rider as you suggest.

Regards,

Jerry Moos
Big Spring, Texas, USA


--- On Sun, 1/18/09, Dickey wrote:


> From: Dickey <ogreer@bellsouth.net>

\r?\n> Subject: Re: [CR] Lugged Viscount

\r?\n> To: cputman@mail.smu.edu, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

\r?\n> Date: Sunday, January 18, 2009, 9:27 AM

\r?\n> Hello Clyde, Back in the mid 70s when Viscount started

\r?\n> getting bikes in

\r?\n> the LBS. There appeared in Bicycling mag about 1975? A good

\r?\n> write-up

\r?\n> about the whole line up of Areo space bikes. A pic was

\r?\n> shown of an

\r?\n> Englishman who was a Pro named Mick ? who rode for Viscount

\r?\n> and his bike

\r?\n> was lugged. The article didn't say if the Pro was for

\r?\n> sale to the

\r?\n> public, but, I never knew it to be advertized for sale. Who

\r?\n> knows it may

\r?\n> be Mick's old bike?

\r?\n> Dickey Greer

\r?\n> West Monroe,La