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
> 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