[CR] Was: Bill Whitcomb Now: Soens

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From: "Ken Foster" <kenf3@me.com>
To: <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 00:08:57 +0100
Subject: [CR] Was: Bill Whitcomb Now: Soens


Thanks Mike and Steven,

While searching the web I came across this thread http://forums.cyclingweekly.co.uk/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/38167/Main/31763/ which seems to suggest Bill Whitcomb also worked at Cougar Cycles and actually built a frame for 1984 LA Olympics. (right at the bottom of the topic) but apart from that there seems to be very little information about him on the web. Surely he must have been well known in Liverpool, it seems he was a builder for Cougar (was that Soens?) but when did he badge his own bikes?

Quite exciting, I now have two frames in the shed built by builders who built bikes for the 1948 and 1984 Olympics respectively!

Ken Foster
Eatbourne
kenf3@me.com