OK here goes: Belgium: Ludo, Norta, Diamant (not Dutch!), Boston, Splendor, Eddy Merkcx (sigh), Romany, Plum Vainqueur, Flandria, Superia (all these have true racing heritage!) Netherlands: Gazelle, Batavus, Locomotief, Jabo, Joco, Zieleman, RIH, Presto (Roy Schuiten attacked the world hour record on a Jan Legrand built Presto). Everyone of those names has at leats one world championship chalked up. Mor e obscure names: Peka, Huissoon, Cera (uncle of Jan Raas built them and still does), Remy, Sirocco, Visser Vainqueur, Verhoeven. The list goes on and on ... With Concorde I hesitate because although a Dutch firm, the frames were build in Italy. Yeah, a Benelux theme would be OK! Freek Faro, proudly owning a Visser and a Zieleman! Rotterdam Netherlands
2005/10/13, kim klakow <Akimbo71@gmx.net>:
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> That leaves a whole plethora of nice bikes:
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> Germany: Enik, Duerkopp, Bauer, Rickert, Diamant, Rowona, Kotter, Kondor,
> Technobull, Lüders and Opel, just to name a few
> Austria: Austro Daimler/Puch and Capo
> Belgium: Merckxs, Flandria and Kessels
> Switzerland: Mondia, Condor (with "c") and Allegro
> and Spain: Zeus and Razesa
> Netherlands: Diamant, Concorde and Batavus
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> I think there are plent of these in listmembers' hands to fill a nice
> auditorium ...
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> kim
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