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/
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/
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
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> Robert Broderick has a full range of Falcon catalogues scanned and available to CR Listers with a password but I've lost the link.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Peter Kohler
> Washington DC USA