Originally Posted by
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Something about this find sounds to me like... ...an April Fools joke. Methinks possibly the OP is so busted! I'm expecting the "real" story any moment now. Something tells me this one also might be exactly the OP's size(?).
But wait, there appears to be some genuine patina dirt about the bb shell, so could this frame have been done up this way for a dealer's convention????
Nice work of JB's there, rivals my Richard Moon! Fantastic (& in more ways than one)!
No it is not a joke and the bike is not my size. Look at the appraisals sub forum and see all the stuff I got from this guy. Very nice stuff. He also had an Italian made Mini, a Velosolex Moped, a very nice Ciocc, and much more. He had a stack of tee shirts that said Lambert cycles on them (I have one under the BB in my picture).
Based on the posts above, It seems plausible that this is a name only Lambert business venture that didn't work out. Is Joe Bell approachable? Would he remember something like this? He had painted the three other "Lamberts" that the guy had.