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Post by cusqueno on Jul 31, 2020 18:37:11 GMT
Occasionally people on this forum mention the information to be found on the Viscount bicycles!! thread on the Cycling UK Forum (formerly CTC). This was started by Steve (busaste) in 2009 and is still getting more posts in 2020, 184 pages later. Most of the basic questions about Viscounts and Lamberts have been aired over the years and it is a useful resource. Some nice pictures as well. Just thought I'd bump this to the top for the benefit of people new to this forum who might not have seen the other one. |
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Post by dracco on Jul 31, 2020 19:04:51 GMT
During lockdown I re-read the entire CTC thread. A real goldmine of information. It's what got me started when I inherited a Viscount from a work mate.
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Post by franco on Jul 31, 2020 19:17:08 GMT
It’s a great thread, some interesting information from ex employees and stuff. I was hoping Busaste would write the book that was mentioned but I suppose there could be legal problems? This is a decent blog with lots of comments and pictures, anyone know who wrote it? Link |
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Post by Jem on Jul 31, 2020 20:25:24 GMT
It’s a great thread, some interesting information from ex employees and stuff. I was hoping Busaste would write the book that was mentioned but I suppose there could be legal problems? This is a decent blog with lots of comments and pictures, anyone know who wrote it? LinkWe all hoped Steve would be able to somehow get the book released. It might have only had a very niche market , but it would have been the most enthusiastic market known! Cusqueno wrote that blog! I used to check it out a lot in the 'early days'. Other members that had a great wealth of info when I first got back into Viscount's via that CTC thread were Bendo in Australia and Utejev (might also have been in Australia or could have been Japan?) And while we are clarifying, , this forum only started to try and make the info from the CTC thread more searchable and manageable. I used to visit it to find some valuable snippet of info, and at that time it was growing at such a rate that finding a post might take 10 mins or sometimes more. So, the idea of this one was just to put 'vital' stuff that was a long lasting legacy. Funny to think that there was literally 3 or 4 of us on here , and that there was just a couple of posts for a while - then people very kindly shared their knowledge for those who came after. I always imagine a person who just bought a Lambert or Viscount searching for something about their new second hand bike, or maybe someone who had one way back in the day and gets nostalgic and then idly does a Google search and finds us and it raises a smile Viscount hasn't been forgotten. And then of course there's the Facebook group and the flickr group for all things Viscount |
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Post by franco on Jul 31, 2020 20:58:57 GMT
I suspected someone from here had wrote that blog  |
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Post by lighthousejim on Jul 31, 2020 21:03:33 GMT
I think I probably fit the first category of your imaginary people. I'd never heard of Viscount before one came up for sale locally just when we happened to be looking for a bike. I, too, have trawled through the CTC thread, so I can't claim any knowledge about Viscounts isn't already there. Thank you to all the enthusiasts who have contributed so far. It's always interesting to learn stuff you didn't know, and if my experiences in related areas can help anyone, I'm pleased to be able to contribute in return.
Jim
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Post by wheelson on Jul 31, 2020 21:37:02 GMT
For me it was all that Lambert and Viscount Aerospace advertising "back in the day". Being a bike mechanic in the '60s and '70s, then working in an Engineering Mechanics Lab in the early '80s really sucked me into the lightweight steel, sealed bearings, and all that. Then a few years back I bought a (still) unknown Lambert/Viscount frameset on the CR list and started researching to determine if it was a Lambert/Viscount (it was) and how it had been outfitted. That's how I found this great forum. My L/V collection count is currently three, with hopefully another small one for my wife in the works.
All in all, this forum has been a very pleasant experience for me and it's one of the first things I check on the computer each morning (when most of you on the other side of the pond have been at it for 4-5 hours already!).
Thanks to all of you who have made this happen. I'll do my part to contribute and assist whenever I can, but I'm still on the lower rungs of the ladder as far as Lamberts and Viscounts are concerned!
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Post by whippet on Aug 1, 2020 18:05:32 GMT
We certainly all have a lot to thank Steve / Busaste for when he started that thread.
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Post by theformeremployee on Aug 3, 2020 23:52:44 GMT
We certainly all have a lot to thank Steve / Busaste for when he started that thread. It's also been a point of regret that a book on the history has never been created. I have made many links/contributions and offers to help
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Post by bendo on Jun 17, 2021 10:24:25 GMT
I too am a bit sad the book hasn't eventuated. Life gets in the way...
Stayed tuned to this channel, that's all I can say
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Post by Admin on Jun 17, 2021 16:21:13 GMT
I too am a bit sad the book hasn't eventuated. Life gets in the way... Stayed tuned to this channel, that's all I can say Sorry Bendo, I wanted to quote you , and clicked on 'edit' button by mistake, and with my Admin rights, it allowed me to accidentally cut your post up and then I couldn't undo my mess up.  |
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Post by bendo on Jun 17, 2021 22:33:17 GMT
No worries Admin. 
I just wanted to say that the original UK cycling forum superthread (can't believe it's still going, and yes, I remember trying to scroll through it to find specifi bits of info, which was hard because the page numbers kept changing!), and then this forum (thanks Jem!) helped to undo all the Death Fork associations with the Viscount brand. Time was, thanks largely to Sheldon Brown, when if you googled Viscount Aerospace bikes all you got was references to death forks.
It was largely thanks to Steve (busaste) and John (cusqueno) that we got the info and beautiful pics that started to give people a more complete picture of what a unique marque Viscount was.
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Post by theformeremployee on Jun 18, 2021 9:42:13 GMT
Whilst this topic is 'renewed', Covid 19 has prevented a 'round table discussion' that those who are taking part in this project would prefer, rather than endless email bingo.
We have :
a lot of notes, untranscribed tape recorded conversations, photos, newspaper scans as well as the knowledge residing between the aging ears of employees of the various periods
a) Lambert
b) Viscount Bilston
c) Viscount Potters Bar.
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a text of the story covering some of (a)
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a publisher who would arrange printing and distribution. This is a not-for-profit entity.
(Remembering the old joke about 'we didn't start out to be not-for-profit, but it seems to have happened.....'.)
I am now trying to get the 6 main people, 7 including the author of the text. We are all from different households, including one in France. We have a 'one place' sorted out, just the 'one time' to work out.
Please don't say "Zoom it" because that has been discounted because so much material is physical.
The proposed meeting awaits the second vaccination of Steve Brereton, luckily born more recently that the rest of us !
So, work in progress.
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Post by Jem on Jun 18, 2021 13:11:46 GMT
Whilst this topic is 'renewed', Covid 19 has prevented a 'round table discussion' that those who are taking part in this project would prefer, rather than endless email bingo. We have : a lot of notes, untranscribed tape recorded conversations, photos, newspaper scans as well as the knowledge residing between the aging ears of employees of the various periods a) Lambert b) Viscount Bilston c) Viscount Potters Bar. and a text of the story covering some of (a) and a publisher who would arrange printing and distribution. This is a not-for-profit entity. (Remembering the old joke about 'we didn't start out to be not-for-profit, but it seems to have happened.....'.) I am now trying to get the 6 main people, 7 including the author of the text. We are all from different households, including one in France. We have a 'one place' sorted out, just the 'one time' to work out. Please don't say "Zoom it" because that has been discounted because so much material is physical. The proposed meeting awaits the second vaccination of Steve Brereton, luckily born more recently that the rest of us ! So, work in progress. Hugely excited by the prospect of this and it's outcome! |
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Post by theformeremployee on Sept 9, 2021 7:14:28 GMT
We have had the "round table" - it's all work in progress
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Post by franco on Sept 9, 2021 9:17:56 GMT
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Post by Jem on Sept 9, 2021 14:01:55 GMT
We have had the "round table" - it's all work in progress Thumbs up! |
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Post by rodh on Sept 9, 2021 23:41:18 GMT
We have had the "round table" - it's all work in progress Splendid ... Can't wait! (but I will ...) |
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