I just took my Peter Mooney over to his shop today to check out what I could find out about it.
1979, originally built as a road single speed/fixed gear with track ends but road geometry.
The bike is a bit big for me, but very nice. And Peter is just a really nice guy to talk to. (I also finally had a bit of potential business for him, so I wasn't just a drain on his time. I've had the bike a few years, and didn't have enough reason to check it out till recently) And he must be really organized, as it only took about 5 minutes for him to find and copy the original sales slip with the details.
So yes, there were single speed/fixed gear bikes for the road even here in the US during the era we're interested in.
Steve Birmingham Lowell, Massachusetts USA
Message: 7 Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:07:08 -0700 From: "Ted E. Baer" <wickedsky@sbcglobal.net> Subject: [CR] wrong name on post To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Message-ID: <631757.95091.qm@web80608.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
I accidentally sent a post to the CR List with the name "The Lunch Buddies. "? It should say my name:? Ted E. Baer.? The Lunch Buddies were two f ools who always had to go lunch at noon together in Palo Alto.? No, I was not one of them.
Here is the post again in its entirety:
Here we go with the fixie stuff again.? Instead of being critical, I woul d like to take the high road this time (i.e.-- like the ones found in the D olomities) in asking the following:
What lightweight cycles aside from on-topic track and velo drome bicycles w ere sold between the general years of discussion outlined in the CR List Ru les?? Other than the two I just mentioned, I can only think of BMX and Ba lloon Tire bicycles both of which are off topic.
Does anyone have any information on an actual "fixie" that was handbuilt an d or mass produced from say 1933 to 1983?
Ted E. Baer
Palo Alto, CA USA