Recent content by CyclingTheLakes

I'm back, I just found this discussion in Germany and this bike is more like yours. http://www.velomobilforum.de/forum/inde ... ord.25990/ So, I don't speak German, maybe one can tell what they are saying but that bike looks like it was made by the same people who made yours. Austro...

You are probably right. The picture of the rear dropout stumped me a bit.

Edit https://picclick.de/1946er-Rekord-Herre ... id=1&pid=1 Next post though, I think is much more helpful, perhaps these were the same companies.

Jimi too. Even if one weren't into the band, that Black Sabbath one is handsome.

Logo is the same for the motorbikes, Handlebar stem and handlebars are SR, Japanese company, maybe SR SaKae. Check the crank and pedals too, to see if they are made in Japan. Brakes too, are they Dia Compe? Those were made in Japan too. A lot of Japanese parts it looks like . Still, a...

Maybe by tomorrow, I will find more.

I searched bing and google for "Raleigh Aravis", I was getting some hits and look for images too. But I was getting info; maybe it was sold in Spain and Italy or something. It also looked like a few companies had bikes called that. Col des Aravis? French mountain, hills?

http://bicycletouringpro.com/touring-bi ... ing-bikes/ In the comments section, excerpt: " Here is one but I go to the links and often they are not functioning links. Spanish or Italian links but apparently, the bike did exist. Larger image here: http://img.class.posot.es/es_es/2016/02...

Really nice website on this vintage brand. I enjoy learning about more obscure bikes rather than the usual popular ones, I mean, both are great. http://www.hill-special.co.uk/index.html Quite a bit to see.

Are you a member of that Australian Cycling Forum? They have a Retro-Bike area: http://www.bicycles.net.au/forums/viewforum.php?f=23 They have a few very nice vintage bikes from there. A fairly friendly bunch too should you ask them.

I tried everything on a stuck seatpost; well, as a last resort, I happened to know some garage mechanics who owed me a favour. I took the bike up there and asked them if they could loosen it and by golly they did. So, these car mechanics must have had some powerful tools or a vice to do loosen...

I once read Greg Lemond recommend helmets in his bike manual even though he acknowledged he usually didn't wear one back in those days. He said you can even hit your head on the curb. Now to me, that's overdoing it but some folks are out there and clipped in, sort of made sense to me. If one is...

http://www.adverts.ie/road-bikes/viking ... e/11315349 (Sell is off now); Viking Triomphe purchased in Ireland, campagnolo. That is already looking like late '80s, still lugged. http://www.adverts.ie/road-bikes/viking ... e/11315349 Maybe this is even the bike you purchased.

I'm getting the serial number as 823167, is there a number or letter before "8". Here are some resources but they don't seem to help much, let me say, as in the first link, sometimes Raleigh 3 speed bikes had the serial number on the seat tube cluster area. This might be the early 1950s...

Thanks for the review