Alpines(waas:Re: [CR]DC Gear Exchange Photos

(Example: Framebuilding:Restoration)

From: <ABikie@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 08:36:04 EDT
Subject: Alpines(waas:Re: [CR]DC Gear Exchange Photos
To: OROBOYZ@aol.com, WBINGHAM@imf.org, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 9/29/2001 5:08:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time, OROBOYZ@aol.com writes:

<< is a British made bike. Early Alpines could have come from (at least) Mercian and Condor. Remember, Alpine at first was a house brand... Larry Black knows all about this, having been a Georgetown Velo Sport boy! >>

Mike Schwering affixed the sticker to and had bikes commissiones by those makers as well as Arthir Metcalfe, Alec Iles (sp?) Hurlow, and Eisentraut,mto name a few, before guys like DanWagner, Reno Rashid, Ned Carey, Ciro, and Fred Kelley started the Maryland plant

Georgetown Cyclesport was our name , not Velo Sport, That was/is in Berserkeley, California.

sorta like that wannabe shop, Cycles de Argent.

Larry Black
Larry