Anyone have a Lambert rear deailleur to sell or trade? I mean the Lamber t badged one which was a pretty clunky clone of a Huret Svelto. Not a pa rticularly good derailleur, but I recently obtained an early lugged Viking/ Lambert. The early lugged Lamberts were sold under the Viking and Reg Ha rris names as well as Lambert. Many of the components had been "upgraded ', which actually were upgrades in the case of the Cinelli 1A stem and TTT bars, but I want to restore the bike to original. The RD is a Campy Velo x, nearly as bad an RD as the Lambert, so I'm not sure that was an upgrade. The frame is in pretty good shape, so if I can restore the original Lam bert bits, I'll send Dale some photos for the CR site. He already has hi s own Lambert-badged early lugged frame there and another member's Reg Harr is version, so the Viking will complete the set.
I also need the Lambert dustcaps with the "L" for the pedals, if anyone has those. Anyone know how that gold colored Lambert center sleeve was atta ched to the bars? I have one pair with the sleeve riveted to the bars, b ut the sleeve is pettty badly scratched up. But I recently bought a smal l lot of used Lambert parts, which included a center sleeve, but no bars . This sleeve in in better shape, and has no holes in it, so it does not look to have been riveted or screwed to bars. Did later Lambert bars ha ve the sleeve glued or maybe just pressed onto the bars? Actually, the s leeve is pretty thin, so the stem should be able to hold it in place withou t a lot of other securing, sort of just a very wide handlebar shim.
On another subject, I have some BB cups marked only "France". I thou gh they were French thread, but today I discovered the fixed cups are lef t-hand thread, as they would not go into a French threaded Crescent frame, but did go into an English threaded Assenmacher. But I believe Swiss a nd English fixed cups (and French and English adjustable cups) do not var y all that much, so the fact the cup threads into an English frame does not rule out it being Swiss. Anyone got a positive method for distinguishin g a Swiss fixed cup from an English one?
Regards,
Jerry Moos