[CR]Viking sighting on Bainbridge Island

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From: "Mark Petry" <mpetry@bainbridgeisland.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Cc: <Jgrome@aol.com>, <sprocket@cupertinobike.com>
Subject: [CR]Viking sighting on Bainbridge Island
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:31:02 -0800

Jeff Groman has a just received a brand new "Viking" frame from Trevor Jarvis of "Flying Gate" fame. This bike (see URLs below) is a genuine vintage bike produced in 2002. It has heavily modified Nervex lugs, a fabricated bottom bracket shell, and machined track ends.

Supposedly this design "redefines track handling and power delivery" but a back of the envelope stress analysis with some WAG load estimates and rough trig is inconclusive; maybe it's different for the same reason that Hetchins used curly stays... It would never be mistaken for anything else... And it is kinda neat to look at! And no, it is NOT available with Record-10.

http://www.petry.org/pics/viking1.JPG http://www.petry.org/pics/viking2.JPG

===================================================== Mark Petry 206.618.9642 Beautiful Bainbridge Island, WA mpetry@bainbridgeisland.net ===================================================== "Nothing can match the simple pleasure of a bicycle ride"

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