All
I, rather surprising, won the auction for the Alpine track bike being discuss. I won't pick it up til circa 7 January, at which time I will take some good photos, and hopefully some of you can help to identify its origin.
I bought it just for the parts; which seemed to be to be more that worth the $600 I paid.
Ken Sanford
Kensington
> There's more in the archives, but local Maryland builder/racer Fred
> Kelly built custom Alpines from the very late 70's into the
> early-to-mid 80's. During that time, a house-mate of mine had a
> custom Kelly-built pearl-pink frame that I'd love to track down. Fred
> is still in the area (or was several years ago), and maintains a list
> of serial numbers of frames he built. He also was willing to provide
> decals to those who had his Alpine frames. Someday I'd like to know
> the details of the Alpine name and the relationship between GTCS and
> Fred. The last time I talked with Fred, which was quite a number of
> years ago now, he wouldn't discuss it, but clearly had some "issues"
> about it.
>
> Wayne Bingham
> Lovettsville VA USA
>
> On Dec 17, 2007 9:56 AM, Tom Dalton <tom_s_dalton@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I just want to add to this week-old message, that by the early 80's
>> Alpine later was actually making their own frames... but this is not one
>> of them. I'm with Dale that it's a rebadged British bike. In addition
>> to the brands Dale mentions, I think some Alpines were MKM. Of course,
>> the decals were stuck on anything that any GTCS employee or Alpine Team
>> rider was using, and that included plenty of Serottas, a Cotten, an
>> Aschemacher.... So, there are "actual Alpines," from the 80's, earlier
>> bikes that were re-badged and sold as Alpines, and bikes that were never
>> sold as Alpines but that simply bore the decals because of team or shop
>> affiliations. When Alpine closed shop, a friend of a friend eneded up
>> with a bunch (all) of the old decals. Some went to my froiend, and then
>> to me, and ended up on a Centurion that I sold to a Mennonite kid at a
>> swap meet. Anyway, look closely once you see the decals.
>>
>> By the way, it's my understanding that GTCS provided a bunch of spare
>> Alpine bikes to the Junior World's Road Championships held in Washington
>> D.C. in 1978.
>>
>> Tom Dalton
>> Bethlehem PA USA
>>
>>
>> The Ebay Alpine:
>>
>> http://ebay.com/
>>
>>
>> Dalr wrote:
>> I am betting that is a Condor or Mercian... This was the MO for
>> Georgetown Cycles, the shop where Larry Black started his career & the
>> shop who owned that brand....
>>
>>
>> Dale Brown
>> Greensboro, North Carolina USA
>>
>>
>>
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