Subject: [Classicrendezvous] Re: Favorit and seatpin diameters Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 10:18:56 +0100 From: "Hilary Stone" <Hilary.Stone@Tesco.net> To: Stacey Baker <veritas23@yahoo.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Favorit was (and is?) the premier Czech bike manufacturer which celebrated its 100 anniversary in 1974 and make bikes under quite a few other brand names too. When I was at the 1993 International Veteran Cycle Rally in Prague we were all given a history (in Czech) of Favorit published in 1974. They were the Czech equivalent of Raleigh in England manufacturing everything from shoppers to top end road bikes. Not many are aware of just how advanced engineering was in the Czechoslovakia and the tubing may well have been home brewed chrome-moly. If the frameset is reasonably light I think you can be assured that the frame was one of their top ones. Don't forget however that it may be a little heavier than we have become accustomed to in the past ten years. Most manufacturers in France, Italy and Belgium used heavier gauge quality tubing for many years in order to ensure a long life over what could be very indifferent road surfaces.
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Chuck Schmidt SoPas, SoCal
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