Here is a nice Groene Leeuw; was Re: [CR]Green Bikes and superstitions

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From: "Charles T. Young" <youngc@ptd.net>
To: "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <C21047DC.5CEC9%stevens@veloworks.com>
Subject: Here is a nice Groene Leeuw; was Re: [CR]Green Bikes and superstitions
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 12:59:16 -0500
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Tom Hayes has photos of a lovely Groene Leeuw up on Wool Jersey:

http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/Rita/Groene_Leeuw/

Well, Tom, is it fast for a green bike?

Charlie "My BRG Ron Cooper is fast, I'm slow" Young
Honey Brook, PA
USA


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven L. Sheffield"
To: Classic Rendezvous
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: [CR]Green Bikes and superstitions



> On 3/4/07 9:38 AM, "Jerome & Elizabeth Moos" <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>
>> So then was Grone Leeuw an ale produced by Weil's? Does this brewer
>> still
>> exist?
>
>
> Wiel's (sorry, not Weil's) was a brewery (Wielemans-Ceuppens). The
> building
> is currently being turned into a contemporary art center in Brussels.
> Wielemans-Ceuppens apparently went out of business in 1988.
>
> http://www.wiels.org/
>
> Groene Leeuw was the top-end brand coming out of bicycle manufacturer De
> Kimpe, which was based in Deinze. I don't have much information other
> than
> that, except that in the 1970s, there was also an Avia-Groene Leeuw team.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Steven L. Sheffield
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