Beryl Burton's 1962 Bike Badge

[Breezin]

Thanks everyone for working toward this. An Eddy Soens it is.
Nailed it in five pages!
Yes, the bike next.

BTW, Otis snapped a quick pic of his Soens today. Definitely not Beryl's, and you can see it is a tad too small for 6'5" Otis.

 

[Breezin]

Hi Joe, looking at the pictures of Beryl on the Viking and Eddie Soens the bars appear to be the same with the bottom of the drops at a steep angle. Your Viking appears to have a different style of bar and drop stem, it's hard to see if Beryl used a drop stem in the pictures Just wondering the Viking is part of your beautiful museum collection why you have put it up for sale?

Apparently Beryl had her bars angled down 20 degrees or more for most her early career, until maybe 1966. After that she went with 10-15 degree slope. I don't see the bar and stem on our 1963 Viking as different as on her 1962 Soens, could be one and the same, just transferred over. Our Viking's stem angles down toward the front at 5 degrees or more. It's a Cinelli brazed steel stem with Cinelli #14 steel bars (I believe that's the number).

The eBay posting you saw is from before Marin Museum of Bicycling acquired the bike. We have no intention of selling it.