Brands we never see on RB?

[non-fixie]

Mid-eighties Japanese Akibo. As they are a trading firm they probably didn't build it themselves, but I haven't been able to determine who did.

 

[non-fixie]

Van den Eng was a shop in Gouda, Holland, which sold household appliances and bicycles. I don't know about the appliances, but the bikes were quite nice. Local racing club members bought them, or so I've been given to understand.

Their house brand was Stormvogel. De frames came from Belgium, I believe.

Mine is from the early eighties. As found:

 

[Jamesbike]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/16563687...tixoXeJTeO&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
Henery Burton???

 

[Jamesbike]

Young's???

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/25568981...tixoXeJTeO&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

[BiketoBasics]

Those brands definetely do not appear here (in this part of Canada at least). Maybe the occasional Dawes.

 

[3wheeler7]

Like this one?

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Belonged to a friend of mine who was in the North Notts Olympic as a lad in the late 60's. I sold it for hime several years ago. He tells me it was definitely a Pongo build. It was to small for me or I'd have kept it myself.

Or this one, built by Pongo for a Newark chap named Ted Guy, in the late 70s I think. It originally had his name on the down tube in place of the ACS Paramount decals but it was so faded I couldn't make out his name, after I sold it someone identified it.
I sold it to a Mansfield chap named Wilf who used to ride with Pongo.

 

[Dana Kilalps]

John Pavey of Hardwick

 

[Canuk]

This is a Raymond Clerc (for Wolhauser). Very nicely finished lugless aluminium frames. I've no idea how he anodised them, but I've had two of these and they were both A. Weird and B. Wonderful. He did a lot of specials with curved seat tubes and even a split seat tube version.

Would love to have a small collection, but even these rebranded Clercs are the wrong end of expensive. An original is pretty much silly money