[CR]Re: World Voyageur Seatpost

(Example: Racing:Jacques Boyer)

Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:35:41 -0400
From: "Rick Cool" <cool12@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
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Subject: [CR]Re: World Voyageur Seatpost

Jack,

Every original World Voyageur I seen wes equipped with that seatpost. Mine looks like: 26.6 Cr[symbol for 'pi']ep Rider Harvey Sachs once told me that he thought the characters were Russian/Cyrillic; fairly good immitations of the Campy NR seatpost.

Rick Cool Two World Voyageurs City of Fairfax, VA
>Subject: [CR]World Voyageur Seatpost
>
>This '72-'73 MIJ Schwinn World Voyager has a weird seatpost. In addition to
>diameter, it is marked with two words: The first word has strange characters
>that resemble Cyrillic; capitol C - strange looking cap Y - pi symbol -
>strange cap E - cap P. The second word is longhand script "Rider". Bike appears to
>have all original japanese components. I was just wonderin' if anyone else
>has seen one?
>
>Jack Romans
>Sacramento, CA