Re: [CR] Falcon San Remo

(Example: Framebuilders:Jack Taylor)

From: "R.S. Broderick" <rsb000@hotmail.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:11:11 -0700
In-Reply-To: <535383.40095.qm@web54409.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
References: <535383.40095.qm@web54409.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Cc: kohl57@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [CR] Falcon San Remo


Peter et al,

What with the "rearranging" that occurred in the wake of that most unfortunate and unplanned outage on WoolJersey last year, the Falcon specific album which I had posted there did not make the migration over to Velo-Pages. With this thread serving as a long overdue impetus, however, I have now reconstituted said information for the benefit of all (...i.e. it is now available without necessity of any password) at the following location:

http://www.velo-pages.com/main.php?g2_itemId=26656

While I no longer have but a precious few bicycle manufacturer specific catalogs and/or brochures compared to what I once had (...sorry, but collection of such material has never been a priority interest of mine - component related literature, you bet, but bicycle brand specific ephemera, not so much), I did have the foresight to digitize the bulk of it prior to divestiture, and I will now post that material to the following "new" album on Velo-Pages:

http://www.velo-pages.com/main.php?g2_itemId=26651

Please understand that I have absolutely NO intention whatsoever to proliferate the contents of this new manufacturer specific album beyond that material which I once had on hand ... unless someone else wishes to submit their own contributions (...to be posted with proper accreditation, of course) or in the event that I happen across yet more of this type of literature embedded within those couple of boxes I have on hand where their contents have yet to be inventoried.

Robert "let your fingers do the walking through the Velo-Pages" Broderick ...the "Chronically Cloudy Clime" of Oregon Portland, USA


> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:08:52 -0700
> From: kohl57@yahoo.com
> To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: Re: [CR] Falcon San Remo
>
> Robert Broderick has a full range of Falcon catalogues scanned and available to CR Listers with a password but I've lost the link.
>
> Falcon San Remos are a real minefield. Everything they made was "Designed by Ernie Clements" and 1/3rd of that seemed to be called a "San Remo" so there were variants within variants. And seemingly countless decal variants. So even with the catalogues, there is invariably headscratching over some of the details and dates.
>
> The model with the dark red headtube was just below the Equipe and the only difference I think was that this had Weinmann 999 brakes rather than Campagnolo and mudguard eyelets. The last Falcon I saw on eBay not long ago was this model and thanks to jawdroppingly poor photos, it sold for a paltry sum.
>
> Falcon serial nos. are also as meaningless in dating machines as Cinelli's apparently. I guessimated my Equipe (bought as a frameset) as being a '72 due to the earlier Reynolds 531 decal and not having the Cinelli style fork crown.
>
> Peter Kohler
> Washington DC USA