Re: [CR]Duopar insted of Rallye ? Query Not an argument

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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 23:23:28 -0400
Subject: Re: [CR]Duopar insted of Rallye ? Query Not an argument
From: "Leonard Bulger" <lbulger@comcast.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


-Richard Cielec wrote:

-"...back in the day..." - May I ask you to dust-off recollection and be a -bit more specific of time periods ?

Without pulling my old magazines out of the attic and checking, I think the Duopar was current in the late seventies and early eighties. The Rally probably came out a little earlier. The Cyclone GT was replaced by the Cyclone II during the aero craze, so that was 81 or 82. The Superbe Tech was later, maybe '83 or '84.

I went through two Duopars in about two years then replaced it with a used Rally. The Rally lasted about 18 years until I bent it. I replaced it with a NOS '84 Rally and shortened the handlebars so I would be less likely to accidently kick the barcons at traffic lights. My wife has had a Duopar for 20 years and it's still ok.

I never had a titanuim Duopar, but the earlier Ecos had aluminum outer parallelogram plates and the later ones plastic.

Leonard Bulger
Marblehead, MA