Add Bertin to this, there are a number of old Viruses here in the Northwest with the old Andre Bertin script logo on them. Motobecane sold them under the name "Prolight." Another aluminum relabling, Veltec put the brand name "Pacifica" on Bridgestone Radac frames in the 1980's. David Feldman
<Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 5:37 AM Subject: Re: [CR]Vitus frames
> There were more than just the two Chuck mentioned. There were too many to
list. Two
> Swiss manufacturers who took the Vitus plunge in the 80's were Allegro and
Cilo -
> both in that dark burgandy anodize. My girlfirend stil has a Bertoni
flavored Vitus
> in her garage. Then there was the one Sean Kelly rode on the Kas team
with Kas on
> them, although I know I know, that was a sponsor, not a manufacturer. I
have a
> picture of Lemond from the '85 Giro on a Vitus with Hinault decals on it.
I am very
> sure of this - it is not one of the TVT frames they were riding in '86.
You can pick
> off the distinctive Vitus seat lug vry clearly in the picture.
>
> I've seen Gazelle's decals on them as well.
>
> -peter
>
>
>
> Chuck Schmidt wrote:
>
> > Kenneth Stagg wrote:
> > >
> > > I know that the Alan was sold under a number of different names and I
*think*
> > > that the Vitus bonded aluminum frames were (are?) as well. If I'm
correct there
> > > does someone know what brands it was sold under?
> >
> > Two brands I can think of were Motobecane (anodized aluminum) and
> > Peugeot (three main tubes carbon, but different from the Vitus model in
> > that the carbon tubes were larger diameter than those on the Vitus).
> > The Peugeot's carbon tubes were mated to aluminum alloy sleeves that
> > were then inserted into the aluminum lugs.
> >
> > Chuck Schmidt
> > South Pasadena, California
> > http://www.velo-retro.com (NEW list of reprints and T-shirts)