following up: UPS man came early so I ducked out of work for half an hour to put the bike inside, as it was propped up against my garage with nobody home for delivery.
My bike seems to be an enigma in all ways. So, here's what we have: 58cm 650b Hilsen early SA serial number (so confirmed Toyo build) Saluki fork crown, like this: http://www.cyclofiend.com/Images/rbw/rr38_pg45.jpg AHH decals and headbadge and to top things off, it's the lighter, Waterford Hilsen blue, not the darker Toyo. Previous owner is a list member, and he's promised to tell me the history of the bike when he gets a break for work. I suppose it's possible someone just repainted and rebadged an old Saluki. I also wonder if Riv had an unpainted Saluki frame lying around, and decided to make it a Hilsen? Either way, I'm excited by my findings, because A) I like unique things with interesting histories, and B) I prefer the decals and headbadge of the Saluki, so I thought about reaching out to the folks at RBW to see if they still had any Saluki headbadges, and whether they'd sell me one for this bike. That way, when the day comes to repaint, I can reincarnate it back to it's 'original' form. I can't see why they wouldn't sell me one, if they have them, but, who knows! Sean On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 9:47:53 AM UTC-5, Sean Steinle wrote: > > One thing that doesn't seem to get discussed with rebadged Salukis/early > Toyo Hilsens is the fork crown. Does that have any meaning, or did they > vary based on stock they needed to get rid of? All of the Toyo Hilsen's I > see pics of seem to have the swirly fork crown. But, the Salukis had the > style like this: http://www.cyclofiend.com/Images/rbw/rr38_pg45.jpg > > I'm actually taking delivery today of an old 58cm 650b Hilsen, which has > the Saluki/Waterford Hilsen fork crown, but the owner said it's actually > one of the earliest 650b Toyo Hilsens. I'll see what the BB stamp looks > like when I get home tonight. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
