Originally Posted by
JulesCW
There are some really spectacular head badges on some vintage bikes -- [snip] I do smile every time I see the "funky" Loco Star Amsterdam head badge on my '76 Schwinn Paramount
I do smile too, every time I've seen it. OK I've only seen it this once, here, but it worked.
When my wife got her '90s Litespeed, she liked the bike but not the garish decals and head badge -- so we deleted them.
I had collected a few cute, campy or actually beautiful head badges, just to look at. I said pic yer favorite, and this is what she chose:
We didn't have Uranus decals though, so I got some '50s style Rollfast DT repros on ebay. So now the bike's "name" (when we talk about it behind its back) alternates between "the Uranus" and "the Rollfast". Never "the Litespeed" of course. NTTAWWT
-Mark B