Joined: Jan 2009
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From: New York, NY, and High Falls, NY, USA
Bikes: 1962 Rudge Sports, 1971 Raleigh Super Course, 1971 Raleigh Pro Track, 1974 Raleigh International, 1975 Viscount Fixie, 1982 McLean, 1996 Lemond (Ti), 2002 Burley Zydeco tandem
Those rims look good. I built a lot of wheels at a shop in NYC in 1982-1983 or so, and we liked Mavic rims the best. They still make some of the best rims.
My Viscount came with 27" Milremo rims. They look like the crappy Weinmann rims I remember from that period. I gave the wheels away.
Back in the 70s I put a pair of the tubular wheels that came off a Viscount onto my Raleigh Gran Sport. They lightened my bike a lot, and I enjoyed riding them. The Viscount/Lambert hubs were styled to look good, but the workmanship wasn't so great, just as it was with all Lambert components. Still, it all worked fine. The brakes are particularly good.
Another thing I didn't like about my Viscount was the extremely deep handlebars. I could never use the drops of those bars.