Viking bikes...any good

[Maz]

My nephew was after a road bike 2nd-hand. He asked me if Viking bikes were any good but I've never heard of them . Any opinions on them?

 

[tyred]

When was it made? Viking has been through many different guises over the years.

 

[Maz]

When was it made? Viking has been through many different guises over the years.

Viking Giro D'Italia
http://www.rutlandcycling.com/30786/Viking-Giro-D-Italia-2010---Road-Bike-.html

 

[tyred]

I can't comment. It's too modern for me. They made some nice old steel frames years ago and I have special interest in their 1980s products as they were built very close to where I live. I don't know what happened after that.

 

[Maz]

Fair enough.

i notice on the spec it has downtube shifters...don't know if he'll be a fan of them or not so i'll ask him.

 

[Norm]

I can't comment. It's too modern for me. They made some nice old steel frames years ago and I have special interest in their 1980s products as they were built very close to where I live. I don't know what happened after that.

Really? You might like this wee beastie, which has been sitting in my garage or under my arse since I bought it in about 1979.

 

[bennydorano]

I have a mate who I cycle with regularly who bought one last year for near £500, I have a dearer bike yet I marvel at his yoke regularly, on his wheel just Friday night past I watched him shifting up through the gears - smooth as... and silent. He can squeeze a tune out of it too. From my, admittedly hands-off, experience I would recommend it. I often thought he paid more for it than £500 thou he swears he didn't.

 

[tyred]

Really? You might like this wee beastie, which has been sitting in my garage or under my arse since I bought it in about 1979.

Lovely machine Norm. Not mad on the colour but a minor detail. Are those Michelin World Tours?

 

[Hilldodger]

We sell Viking bikes. Nothing special but decent bikes all the same.

 

[Norm]

Lovely machine Norm. Not mad on the colour but a minor detail.

It was the '70s, I was 15, what can I tell you.

Are those Michelin World Tours?

They are certainly Michelin but I don't remember the specifics. The front one must be 15 years old, I was chuffed to heck last year that I was able to source another exactly the same for the rear.

 

[Kestevan]

My first racing bike was a Viking Warlord.

Bike names were definately much cooler in the '70s..........

 

[Fab Foodie]

Modern Viking bikes are cheap, cheerful and workable. A pal has one and it's fine, he rides 100 milers without issue on it and it's been mechanically sound.

 

[Maz]

Thanks for the replies, everyone. It was the modern Vikings my nephew was more interested in.

 

[fatblokish]

Stumbled upon...
My first "proper" bike was a Viking Warlord, it had Shimano downtube shifters with little rubber bits in the void, and Mafac drilled out brake levers.

Bought it in 1980 and did Lejog on it with a bunch of friends two years later.

Then it was nicked from college two years after that.

Happiest bike evah!

 

[biggs682]

original Vikings are well sort after , unsure re modern day bike