[andybee]

Hej!
Okey, lets forget the question about the Club! I saw that You have 300 members there. As You see, we have here some 3 men who are interested in old bikes - Valdo, Oldmoped and Heiks.
Are the 300 clubmen all active members or is it as in our forum, where are more than 5000 members in the list but the real situation is little bit different?
About Your homepage - no need to do some imptovements for me!
But I (as You) would like "...more detailed info about bikes, such as pictures from catalogues, parts and so on..." too. And of course - better Gallery, technically better and more informative! (A good thing is, that pictures are in estonian, so we can look and uderstand!)

As You said, you hoped to hear about our swedish bikes in english and to see pictures about them. And as You se, it´s not as simple thing. We don´t speak english, we are lazy, we are not interested in old bicicles and we haven´t a lot of interesting swedish bikes. ( But perhaps I am telling only about myshelf...)

From the period before 1940 we have in Estonia mostly german, swedish, latvian, english and estonian bicicles. Some french, belgian, austrian, czech, russian, danish (hamlet) and others ones. As i already wrote - almost all what we know about them (and about swedish bikes) is in this forum, but of course not really all. If You will find something intersting in the forums topics then perhaps we would give some better info and some talk about them in english. As I understood You are interested mostly in swedish bikes? We havent exact info what kind and what brands of bikes we have before 1940, but we have one list of bikes what were confiscated by soviet red army from the people of the island Saaremaa (Oesel or as it is correct, close to Sweden ). There are not many swedish bikes in this list and this seems strange but perhaps (my favorite word - perhaps!) on the mainland Estonia there was the % of swedish bikes bigger or the swedish bikes were hided better from the russians because they were so good and costed a lot of money???
I put here the adress of the list for You.

http://eag.vanatehnika.ee/ewrattad-saaremaa1942.html

We have the same problem when it come to active peoples, i estimate that about 10% of the members are active in the club...

Regarding your swedish bikes, when searching this forum for keywords lik "rootsi" hermes, husqvarna, vega, crescent and so on, i think they look very nice and interesting. When it comes to Nymans made bikes, im surprised to see that you seem to have a lot of bike made around 1939, according to my calculation. This were the the last bikes made with the individual mascots on the top of the front fenders. The last models before the 1940 models where made around the frame no 1217000-1218000, i have bikes from 1939 and 1940 in this serial range where the 1940 model has a no 1218xxx something. You seem to have a lot of bikes with serial no around 1115xxx- 1200xxx. The no in the russian list is also around this numbers. I don´t know if you now how the 1940 model bikes look, but generally they have a chromed zink die cast
molding on the top of the front fender and often silver painted wheels and and mudguards. All of Nymans bikes got this chorme molding, so the earlier types where each brand had their own mascot disappered, sadly...
Check this link for example of swedish mascots: http://www.hvatomas.se/Husqvarna%20marke...cottar.htm
I attach a picture of a 1940 crescent, you can compare it with Valdo to see the different details.

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So, what do You think about this transport - bicicle?
http://forum.automoto.ee/showthread.php?...pid=278382

The only thing i can say for sure is that is not a swedish bike! I not so good at other than swedish bikes, i´m sorry.. Though it´s a nice design!