Re: [CR]Whats a Mirella?

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From: "Dennis Ryan" <loubobky@hotmail.com>
To: rfitzger@emeraldis.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Whats a Mirella?
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 00:40:32 -0400


My gaspipe Chiorda had Balilla centerpulls, and I still have the calipers. The "made in Italy" sticker looks, as I remember it, identical to the one on the Mirella ... same importer? Dennis in Louisville

----Original Message Follows---- From: rfitzger@emeraldis.com To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [CR]Whats a Mirella? Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 19:53:29 GMT

> In a message dated 6/28/01 10:24:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > jfbender@umich.edu writes: > > I couldn't resist this. Circa 1970? I thought Balilla disappeared about > > then. > > http://ebay.com/<blah>

Ballila brakes were still coming on bikes up till around 1974-75 or so. I remember seeing them on late bike-boom era gaspipe bikes in shops in Charlottesville, VA ... the "A. Camera" in particular. I don't even remember which gaspipe bike it was that I worked on for someone one summer that had Ballila centerpulls, but they were the cheapest ones Ballila made ...

Russ Fitzgerald Greenwood, SC

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