Originally Posted by
juvela
Originally Posted by
non-fixie
If I read @
martl's post correctly it may have been the other way around. But perhaps he could be so kind as to drop in and clarify.
Sorry if i expressed myself in an unclear manner
According to this website ->
Rih ? Fahrradmonteur it were Viennese RIH bikes (no connection to dutch RIH) which also were sold as "Girardengo" bikes. There seems to have been some kind of cooperation. I myself haven't found yet a good way to tell a RIH-Girardengo from an Alessandria one, they seem to have used the same headbadges and numbering, also both used a variety of common-of-the-era lugs, for all i can tell.
That website itself names as source the book "Wiener Mechaniker Räder 1930 - 1980 - Eine Rundfahrt durch mehr als 100 Wiener Fahrradmarken Autoren: Michael Zappe, Walter Schmidl, Martin Schubreiter, Werner Schuster" which is a very well-made, knowledgeable and thoroughly researched affair.