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Lambert Bicycle Hubs

Lambert hubs this page: 36-hole front high-flange hub

Lambert bicycles were built in England the 1970s. Made out of thin-wall straight-gauge chrome-moly steel tubing, the bikes were incredibly cheap, $129.00 in 1972. Even accounting for inflation, the price was quite modest. The bikes were also very light, weighing only 19 pounds with tubular tires.

Early on, the Lambert firm made many of the bikes' components, including the crankset, brakes, rear derailleur, handlebar, stem and sealed bearing pedals. The firm marketed the Lambert as "The World's First Aerospace Bike".

Here's a Lambert ad from June, 1973

The first Lamberts were made in the old Viking factory in south London and were lugged. Later bikes were filet brazed.

The bike had one serious problem: the aluminum fork with a steel steering tube held together with a rivet. The forks did occasionally fail. When Lambert became insolvent, it was acquired by the Yamaha Motorcycle Company. Yamaha did a recall of the aluminum forks and renamed the bikes “Viscount”.

Yamaha shuttered the Lambert/Viscount factory just couple of years after buying it.

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Lambert Front High-Flange 36-hole Hub. Used, $50.00/each

This hub now uses 10mm axle with a replacement cone.  While overhauling the hub, I discovered the 9mm axle had a 9mm cone on one side, and a 10mm cone on the other. The hub now has matching cones. Obviously, Lambert used the same cones front and rear, only tapped them for the different axle dimensions. This is not the only front hub using 10mm axles in the world!

The old cone (top) and its replacement.

Here's the hub.

Side view

The other side of the hub

"Lambert" name engraved on the hub's center section

The hub rotated to show the rest of the "Lambert" name