What brand is this badge?
07-22-09 | 06:07 PM
#1
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From: Santa Cruz, CA
Bikes: Trek 730 (1983), Electra Townie, Gary Fisher Tassajara
What brand is this badge?
Anybody know? If you do, do you know anything about them? One's available locally, and it's cool looking.
Thanks.
Dan
Thanks.
Dan
07-22-09 | 06:19 PM
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From: Kuna, ID
Bikes: 71 Chrome Paramount P13-9, 73 Opaque Blue Paramount P15, 74 Blue Mink Raleigh Pro, 91 Waterford Paramount, Holland Titanium x2
From Sheldon Brown:
"Lygie
A large Italian maker of production quality bikes. What is interesting about these is that many used very nice components. The frames were nothing special, although we know a few people who found them very pleasing to ride. The value of these is probably mostly in the components."
I'd probably buy it, but I am a sucker for chrome.
"Lygie
A large Italian maker of production quality bikes. What is interesting about these is that many used very nice components. The frames were nothing special, although we know a few people who found them very pleasing to ride. The value of these is probably mostly in the components."
I'd probably buy it, but I am a sucker for chrome.
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1971 Paramount P-13 Chrome
1973 Paramount P-15 Opaque Blue
1974 Raleigh Professional Blue Mink
1991 Waterford Paramount
Holland Titanium Dura Ace Group
Holland Titanium Ultegra Triple Group
07-22-09 | 07:51 PM
#3
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I think they look kind of cool too. There is a little bit about the marque at classicrendezvous. Very little, actually. 
I don't own one of their bikes, just a shop sign bearing their name. 
According to this, which I believe was posted recently on BF, the brand is being resurrected.
I don't own one of their bikes, just a shop sign bearing their name. According to this, which I believe was posted recently on BF, the brand is being resurrected.
Last edited by gridplan; 07-22-09 at 07:56 PM.
07-22-09 | 11:03 PM
#4
I saw the CL ad for that one in Santa Cruz (Aptos) and it looks very good in the pics, worth $175 if it looks as good in person. Lygies were actually a pretty big brand in SoCal when I was a kid (and I lusted for one but never had the $$) because there was at least one shop bringing them in and they sold a lot (might have been Hans Ohrt, but don't know). I think the quality back then was about average for a mass-produced Italian frame (i.e.: NOT Cinelli or Masi quality, these were probably an Atala product) but they sure looked good to my teenage eye.
07-22-09 | 11:33 PM
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