Darn !
I wanted there to be a connection between the "Vent Noir" bicycle , and the "Drakkar Noir" bicycle !
Darn !
Raoul Delmare
Marysville Kansas
<classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>; "Pete K. at KingsvilleBicycle" <petekerez@aol.com>; "Bruce C." <BruceCumberland@comcast.net> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 12:20 PM Subject: Re: [CR]Drakkar Noir Bike or Connie Carpenter at '84 Olympics
> on 6/14/03 12:10 PM, Raoul Delmare at Raoul.L.Delmare@worldnet.att.net
> wrote:
>
> > That bow & arrow logo .
> >
> > The tangled web of which company owned what other company , to what
degree
> > , when , and for how long . . . It's not worth trying to figure
it
> > all out .
> >
> > But , we HAVE seen bicycles from Puch . And we HAVE seen
bicycles
> > from Austro-Daimler .
> >
> >
> > http://www.sheldonbrown.com/
> >
> > A good old friend of mine has a beautiful A-D Vent Noir bicycle (
the
> > one with the impervious , smoked-chrome , finish ) .
>
> The logo, which is only on the Shimano parts, is not the A-D logo. It is
an
> arrow with an exaggerated "S" above and a reverse exaggerated "S" below.
> There is no other model designation.
>
> Todd Kuzma
> Heron Bicycles
> LaSalle, IL 815-223-1776
> http://www.heronbicycles.com