[CR]Malvern Star, Australia

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Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 10:14:59 -0400
From: "Angel Garcia" <veronaman@gmail.com>
To: "CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR]Malvern Star, Australia

Another name being revived, this time Malvern Star. The cyclingnews.comstory on an off-topic bike launch ( http://www.cyclingnews.com/tech.php?id=tech/2008/features/malvern_star_launch_08) includes this bit of history:

"The bicycle company Malvern Star was founded in 1898 by the cyclist Tom Finnigan, who used the prize money of 240 gold sovereigns when he won a track cycling event called the Austral Wheel Race (still held each year in Melbourne) to start a bike shop in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern.

By 1922, a young Hubert Opperman joined Malvern Star as an employee and sponsored cyclist, and so began an association that has become indelibly linked to Australian cycling success. Malvern Star bicycles have been ridden by Australians to countless victories, including World Championship and Olympic gold medals.

Sir Hubert Opperman rode Malvern Stars to distinction in two Tours de France (1928 and 1931)....

....its links to the racing community was at the highest level of the sport, with riders from Oppy at the TdF through to legendary track cyclist Sid Patterson in 1950s, and to the Australian team pursuit squad that won gold in Los Angeles in 1984 (riding steel-framed Malvern Stars)."

Angel Garcia

Long Valley, NJ