Lets see your Viking!

[Teamfixed]

Here's mine, it's plain gauge 531. It was a lockdown project. Mavic hubs and brakes DRC rims an old Stronglight chainset. I like it, it's part of that once traditional activity of using odds and ends to build a very useful fixed.

 

[biggs682]

@Teamfixed that's everything you need for an ideal winter bike

 

[Illaveago]

I just spotted this thread .
I will post a few pictures of my 2 when I get up. 1970's Viking Severn Valley and 1960's Conquest .

 

[Illaveago]

Here are my 2 Vikings. The blue Severn Valley has a Harry Quinn connection and has VQ stamped into the bottom bracket next to the frame number. It has a Reynolds

531 double butted frame and forks, Campagnolo brakes , rear mech, cranks, BB, headset, hubs, Mavic rims and handlebars. It came with Weinmann brake levers which I have replaced with Campagnolo ones. It now stops.

 

[PHL67]

My Aerospace Pro.

 

[midlife]

Nice . Seems to have the matching chainset and kit

 

[biggs682]

My Aerospace Pro.

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How did we get from Vikings to Viscount ?

Oh @PHL67 that is nice

 

[PHL67]

How did we get from Vikings to Viscount ?

Oh @PHL67 that is nice

Sorry. Just saw a ‘V’ and was blind to the rest. 😉

 

[PHL67]

Nice . Seems to have the matching chainset and kit

Original parts apart from usual consumables

 

[Illaveago]

How did we get from Vikings to Viscount ?

Oh @PHL67 that is nice

Weren't they part of the same group when the Americans took over the Viking company? Viscount , Lambert , Viking ?

 

[biggs682]

Weren't they part of the same group when the Americans took over the Viking company? Viscount , Lambert , Viking ?

No idea

 

[Illaveago]

It's a bit quiet on here !

I bought a pair of Viking forks on the bay I'm hoping to fit them to a frame that a friend said that I could have . He is going to dig it out of his garage . He thinks it is an old Severn Valley from the 60's.

 

[Illaveago]

I have been given the Viking frame I was talking about . It is in a tatty condition but it does come with forks . I have been cleaning it up today . I have been doing some research today and have discovered that it is a later version of a Conquest . Post 1963 the Conquest came with Prugnat lugs instead of Nervex ones . I will post some pictures later .

 

[Illaveago]

Here is my new frame.

 

[biggs682]

Anyone want a Viking

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/...paign=auction-alert&utm_content=lot-view-link