Re: [CR]Majestic Bicycle

(Example: Production Builders:Peugeot)

Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:24:16 -0500
From: Marcus Coles <marcoles@ody.ca>
To: CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]Majestic Bicycle
References: <629302.52274.qm@web88208.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <629302.52274.qm@web88208.mail.re2.yahoo.com>


Michael Kurak wrote:
> Dear List-Members,
>
> I have a 70's bike with a head-tube crest that reads "MAJESTIC". I am wonde
> ring if anyone knows anything about the origins of this bicycle. I bought i
> t off the original owner in the 80's. It was probably ten years old at the
> time. It has chromed head tube lugs, forks and rear triangle with campy dro
> p-outs. It originally had a campy push-pin front derailleur ("valentino?)
> , which I unfortunately gave away in my youth. Someone once told me that it
> was a lower line ATALA, but I don't know.
>
>

This may be a "red herring" and it definitely is back in the more hazy points of my memory but, IIRC in the '60's and early '70's there was an importer from Montreal who labeled bikes of all kinds and qualities "Majestic" as a house brand.

Marcus Coles
London, Ontario, Canada