Re: [CR]Re: Odd-weird-interesting-scary NOS 1972 Czech bike & saddle

(Example: Racing:Jean Robic)

Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:44:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Odd-weird-interesting-scary NOS 1972 Czech bike & saddle
To: oroboyz@aol.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <8C8F00804BB83F1-12B8-FF98@MBLK-M30.sysops.aol.com>


Who here has actually owned a Favorit? Considering the price In The Day, I'd heard that these bikes weren't all that bad. Czechoslovakia, after all, made the best engineered goods in the old Soviet block, including the AK-47 automatic rifle. As I recall, the Czech AK-47 could fire the same rounds as the American M-16 and a lot of US troops in Vietnam preferred to carry a captured Czech Ak-47 rather than an M-16.

Regards,

Jerry Moos Big Spring, TX

oroboyz@aol.com wrote: #320062087983 and 320062471061

That is a funny-cool-weird-odd-scary bike! These "Iron curtain" companies are sort of like Yugos.. They LOOK normal but are still distinctly Third World when it comes to machining tolerances, etc.

One thing bothered me in this auction.. Ths seller appears knowledgeable so why would he say "Has a really nice leather seat made by Brooks or Ideale I suppose." He knows that is pure BS. Troubling... What else is BS in what he says?

Dale Brown
Greensboro, North Carolina USA