1980 viscount team replica restoration

[davepickett]

Hi i am hoping someone can assist i am restoring my pearl white 1980 kp crisps
viscount,It has a 24.5 inch frame and has a few minor changes (wrights leather saddle , new front forks the original cracked whilst in a 25k race, newer shimano changers as the original riveted ones became so worn) i have had the bike from new and had alot of success with it in time trials, i would like to find a set of the stickers for it maybe even
have some made if anyone has the correct details. i recall mine had the
signatures of the 3 team members and an arrow shaped union jack on the
cross bar (i believe from 81 onwards they only had Tony Doyles name)
i always found the handling to be excellent and raced it in the british national championships in the mid eighties as well as the london to brighton the same year putting in a time of 2hrs 4 mins, sadly not likely to race again at my age but it would be nice to have it looking in really good condition again
best regards
Dave

[Brucey]

there is an absolutely monster-sized thread on this forum somewhere which is all about viscount bicycles, maybe this query could be added to that, or the answer is to be found within it?

BTW sometimes riveted gear lever assemblies can be made good again by adding a strategic blob of weld to the back of the riveted assembly. Friction levers are funny things that can usually be made to work again, but it isn't always obvious how despite the apparent simplicity.

cheers

[colin54]

Lambert forum here, if you haven't already seen it.


http://viscountandlambert.boards.net

If you google Lambert KP crisps it comes up with plenty of pictures.

Here's the massive thread Brucey mentioned above, 180 pages !


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