Re: [CR]Basement find - Vent Noir II - spellin'

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From: "Raoul Delmare" <Raoul.L.Delmare@worldnet.att.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Basement find - Vent Noir II - spellin'
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 16:50:28 -0500


Dakar Noir vs. Drakar Noir

one spelling or the other , I forgit

Raoul Delmare
Marysville Kansas


----- Original Message -----
From: Raoul Delmare
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [CR]Basement find - Vent Noir II



> Hey Tom ,
>
> Are you just trying to stir things up again ?
>
> : ^ )
>
> See thread from a couple of days ago about the Dakar Noir bicycle .
>
> One of my postings had the link to the Sheldon Brown page write-up of
> the Vent Noir ( he wasn't actually the author of those few paragraphs ) .
>
> Gosh yes those are beautiful frame sets !!
>
> Say , it wouldn't happen to be about 24-inches = 61-cm ,
> center-to-top , would it ?
>
> Raoul Delmare
> Marysville Kansas
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Sanders" <tsan7759142@attbi.com>
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 3:44 PM
> Subject: [CR]Basement find
>
>
> I just dug a lovely little bike out of 25 years of basement storage to save
> it being converted to a "Comfort Bike". It is a late '70s Austro-Daimler
> Vent Noir II in what the original owner told me is a "smoked chrome" finish.
> Gorgeous lugs. I know very little about German bikes and would appreciate
> any input folks might give on or off list.
> Thanks all,
> Tom Sanders
> Lansing, Mi