I saw some viscount road bikes from the 70s. When I first got the bike, I remember seeing something about a Behrens store in Germany. But that's all I got.Strip to bare metal and clear sounds good.
I think it's just shiny metal. I did some hunting around to find info on that bike, no Viscount or Behrens matched up with that frame. I've seen a lugged frame with a American BB but I can't remember where.
TRADITIONAL Behrens Viscount
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I saw some of those also, but the head badge is different and they all have a different BB.
Totally digging that head badgeI started tearing this down after work, hoping to get it ready for our big vacation in two weeks.
Suddenly, as of someone gently... Hitting me with a brick, it dawned on me. I should document this for the traditional category.
I've had this bike for years, and know nothing about it. I bought it the first time I went to the Ann Arbor swap many years ago. I rode it that summer, then it spent the next 6 or so years outside. Now it's back, it's back inside.
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I don't have anything spectacular planned for it. Just want to clean it up a bit, but might add a couple things.
I've searched the forum for ways to rejuvenate the paint, and keep coming up with oxalic acid.
I'm wondering what other ways there are to do that. Not opposed to the acid, just trying to see what else might work.
It looks like someone painted over the original red, so going to dab some paint stripper under the bottom bracket and see what happens.
Semi annual/ retirement trip finally happening. Now that Janet is cancer free, we're just living life. Though, we are currently home for a few days before we get back on the road.
Might get a little more done.
Probably my favorite part of the bike.
It's ridiculous. I'm actually in the garage trying to organize, to make room to work on the VW and new camper when we get back. Think I've already lost 5 pounds.If you can handle the heat. Holy moly it’s hot here.
I made it about a half hour 45 mins before I had to flee back into the AC. Yikes.
Been out here an hour and a half, haven't even made a dent.
