Re: [CR]Re: Badge thuggery

(Example: Events:Eroica)

Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:56:44 -0500
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "John Betmanis" <johnb@oxford.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Badge thuggery
In-Reply-To: <F01C4B8E-9A1B-11DC-951C-00039315EF26@mac.com>


At 03:29 PM 23/11/2007 -0800, Waldo Magnuson wrote:
> Nick March (France), I agree with you. I have a friend who looked
>at my Italian bike and then at the badge and said: "That badge is worth
>$80". He had little regard for the rest of the bike.

Yeah, it's an outrage that a badge today would go for more than the bike sold for originally. I had been looking for a Claud Butler headbadge after I acquired a '51 Allrounder frame. Apparently these show up on eBay at least a couple of times a year, and since they were apparently used over a couple of decades after Clauds were no longer made by Claud Butler, one would think there would have been a lot of expendable donor bikes. However, when a list member alerted me to a badge on eBay, I watched it escalate over $50. No thanks. Fortunately, my frame shows no evidence of any rivet holes, so I'll make do with a decal, sonce a badge would not even be correct.
>Any thoughts
>out there regarding badge removal before painting?

You mean you removed one, doing no harm, and still aren't sure if you went about it the right way? I would either carefully dremel off the rivet heads, or centre punch them and drill them using progressively larger bits until they fell off. As for re-attaching the badge, there are tiny pop rivets, but they look a bit tacky and definitely not period correct. H. Lloyd's has copper and brass headbadge rivets, which should be the right type.

John Betmanis
Woodstock, Ontario
Canada