Re: [CR]Oscar Egg

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Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 17:43:34 -0400
From: "Pete Rutledge" <prutledge1@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Oscar Egg
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
References: <1e9.98eff0b.2c047967@aol.com>


In the mid-sixties I had an old Oscar Egg track tandem. It came with wooden rims. I believe it was pre-WW2.

Pete Rutledge
Woodbridge, VA


----- Original Message -----
From: StuartMX4@aol.com
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 4:18 AM
Subject: [CR]Oscar Egg



> Help!
> Does anybody on the list know about Oscar Egg's bicycles? I have just
> acquired a frame and forks with Osgear drop outs. I know that it is an Oscar Egg as
> the company thoughtfully stamped the name on the fork crown. Frame number is
> 10235. In view of the drop outs, I assume that it is just pre-WW2 or just
> post-WW2.. It has a braze-on to accept the Osgear fork and I have an Osgear to go
> with it. Bottom bracket threads are Imperial rather than French. All I have
> found out so far is that the shop was in the Avenue de la Grande Armee in Paris
> and it was still going in the sixties.
> Any help would be gratefully received.
> Stuart Tallack in West Sussex
> Postscript. It can't have been called an Osgear in France, I suppose. Was it
> known as Super Champion Professional? The drop puts were presumably just know
> as Oscar Egg drop outs.