Jos,
A marque I'd never heard of. beautiful machine. But please ! ...don't haunt us with tales of refuse containers full of Campagnolo parts. It's too much...
nice bike.
Scott Gabriel
Cape Cod
US
> From: Jos van Veldhoven <jos_van_veldhoven@hotmail.com>
\r?\n> Subject: [CR] L'express - Antwerp, Belgium
\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
\r?\n> Date: Thursday, January 13, 2011, 11:57 AM
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Hello All,
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I've been mostly reading the CR list and have added a
\r?\n> (very) few posts but I wanted to share some more of my Dutch
\r?\n> and Flemish racers with the list.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Below is a link to my most recent bike, a 1978 L'express.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> http://www.flickr.com/
\r?\n>
\r?\n> L'express was (is) a bikeshop in Antwerp with a long, long
\r?\n> history.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> They started in 1927 and started to focus more on racing
\r?\n> bikes in the forties and fifties.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I believe Rik van Steenbergen also rode L'express at some
\r?\n> point.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> In 1975 the bikeshop was taken over by C.Van Den Bogaert
\r?\n> who was also renowned for his frame building.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> This bike dates from that period, in which they also
\r?\n> sponsored a local racing team called "Stuivenberrg" (see
\r?\n> picture) and 'tourist' club.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I visited the shop in Antwerp about a year or 2 ago but
\r?\n> after yet another move hardly anything was left of the rich
\r?\n> past.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> In fact, I was told they needed a container to get rid of
\r?\n> all the old Suntour, Campy etc stuff that had been clogging
\r?\n> up their storage. (Garbage container that is....)
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Well, that's the way it goes, but I hope you guys like the
\r?\n> bike.
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Kind regards, Jos van Veldhoven -- Eindhoven,
\r?\n> Holland