Re: [CR] Seeking Wilier Info and Headbadge

(Example: Production Builders:Tonard)

Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:05:56 -0800
From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, Robert Goughary <goughary@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <986589.79587.qm@web111301.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR] Seeking Wilier Info and Headbadge


Wilier is still being produced, and indeed still being used in the Pro Tour peleton. Are you saying the current company has no connection to the original one? I know I have seen several On Topic Wiliers, and I sure thought several of them were quite a bit later than 1952. So did they sell out to another company in 1952 or just move production to a different site like Carlton after the Worksop fire?

Regards,

Jerry Moos
Big Spring, Texas, USA


--- On Mon, 12/28/09, Robert Goughary wrote:


> From: Robert Goughary <goughary@yahoo.com>

\r?\n> Subject: [CR] Seeking Wilier Info and Headbadge

\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

\r?\n> Date: Monday, December 28, 2009, 1:21 PM

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Hi All -

\r?\n>

\r?\n> I am looking for post-war Wilier information. My bike seems

\r?\n> to be from late forties early fifties (factory closed in

\r?\n> 1952)

\r?\n>

\r?\n> First Problem - I am unsure what the correct inner diamter

\r?\n> of the seat post should be. the Seat clamp has clearly been

\r?\n> clamped around something too small - I now have a 26.8 in

\r?\n> there, but maybe it should be a 27mm?

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Second - When I remove the seat clamp, there is copper, but

\r?\n> when I removed the paint on the lugs, and on the tubes (have

\r?\n> removed small spots to look), there is no copper. Though why

\r?\n> would there be copper under the seat clamp if the bike

\r?\n> hadn't previously been plated? maybe the bike was rusting

\r?\n> through the copper and whoever repainted sand blasted it

\r?\n> prior to painting?

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Third - Still looking for a headbadge. Any help there would

\r?\n> be greatly appreciated

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Fourth - I'd like to try to track any info down regarding

\r?\n> this bike, it's year of production, etc. Is there any data

\r?\n> floating around on Wilier and their serial numbers? When did

\r?\n> they stary using the newer campy dropouts instead of the

\r?\n> cambio corsa drops? things like that...

\r?\n>

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Thanks,

\r?\n> Rob Gougahry

\r?\n> Stamford, CT USA