If your in the Kansas City area, stop in at Midwest Cyclery to visit listee Jeremy Haynes. The shop has a lovely Bauer hanging in a place of honor. Used to belong the the previous shop owner, if my memory serves.
Tom Adams, trying to finish my Honey dews so I can go riding (why am I reading my e-mail?)
-----Original Message----- From: Jerry & Liz Moos <moos@penn.com> To: Monkeyman <monkey37@bluemarble.net> Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Date: Sunday, January 21, 2001 12:30 PM Subject: Re: [CR]German bikes?
>One prominent German brand was Bauer. I think the world road championship
was
>won on a Bauer in the 50's or 60's (1955?). The guy I bought my first
>lightweights from, Heinz Linke in Lakewood, OH (several other list members
knew
>him) was a retired German-American aerospace engineer, who had a couple of
old
>Bauers, both road and track models. I seem to remember at least one was
dark
>red and had a decal talking about the World Championship. Pretty sure they
>were full 531, well made with at least some chrome. Don't know much else
about
>them.
>
>Regards,
>
>Jerry Moos
>
>Monkeyman wrote:
>
>> A few years ago I owned a Rickert(sp?) track bike but it was too big and
>> went to the auction block. I've been loking around the web and find that
I
>> hear very little about german bikes. The German bikes I've seen are made
>> with the best care and the couple I've ridden are also great riders.
>> There's Durkopp's around sometimes but I find very little on German bikes
>> in general. Neither Dale's, Sheldon's sites have anything on German
bikes.
>> A Google search for German bikes comes up with lots of interesting
>> recumbents and town bikes, but no real "classics." I know track racing
is
>> huge over there and was so before the war too. So the question is what
>> happened? Who are some other makers I should look out for?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
>>
>> Brandon and Mitzi's-- "Wurld uv Wunder"
>> http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/
>>
>> Monkeyman's on going bicycle part garage sale
>> http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/
>>
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