Greetings all -- Quite some time ago (really the last time I participated in CR), I was cogitating which bike among several classics to restore or refurbish next, and I asked for your vote. More than 20 replied (thank you!), and the winner was my 1960s Viking Severn Valley, and I said that I would abide. Now, however delayed, I am back to it, and have a fundamental problem, or question to ask of you:
All of the research I have done on the bike, for specs and the like, tell that the SV came in Nervex lugs and apparently exclusively. But my frame, which came to me sans decals but con headbadge (which was used on other models) is not held together by Nervex, Professional or otherwise. Q: Do you know whether Viking made this model with other than Nervex luggery? Or am I whistling up the wrong headtube?
Thank you,
J.B. Froke
Pebble Beach, California