jmagruder10

Hello, I was buying some bike parts from someone I meet off of craigslist and he showed me a Alpine track bike that I would guess from the late 50`s - 60`s ? It was of very high quality reynolds 531 frame . He told me he thought it was made in England the headbadge looked like a red square with a white cross painted in the center of it , the word Alpine was painted on the downtube. Sorry I don`t have pictures and the bike is not for sale , I just never heard of this builder and could not find anything about them on the internet. Thanks in advance for any info you can share with me about this brand ,I just like learning new things about bikes.

Velognome 

Here is some info. from Velobase.com https://velobase.com/VeloImages/Headb...32D01DF41.jpeg You can find a picture of the head badge there. Growing up in the DC area, I wanted one too but a teenagers limited income prevented that from happening

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[TD="colspan: 2, align: left"]Alpine Cycles was the trademark for the house brand frames sold by Georgetown Cycle Sports (GCS). They were located in the Washington D.C. area during the 1970's and 80's. They used the distinctive red and white Swiss cross for their logo with ALPINE CYCLES at the top and WASHINGTON D.C. at the bottom. Many of the early Alpine frames from the mid 70's were made by a variety of British builders. Some frames were built in the D.C. area by people affiliated with GCS. In the late 70's American frame builders like Albert Eisentraut also supplied GSC with private labeled Alpine Cycles frames. During the same period GSC sold another brand, C.I.D. wh...
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jmagruder10

Thanks for the info, that is the same headbadge in your link. The bike was in a dark location and I could not read the Washington D.C. below the headbadge. He bought the bike used in that part of the USA in the 70`s , so that makes sense. I will have to do some more web digging about them when I get some extra time , Thanks again.