[CR]please help ID these Nisi rims

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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 13:50:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Tom Dalton" <tom_s_dalton@yahoo.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]please help ID these Nisi rims

Bought a pair of Nisi 36 hole tubular rims this weekend. They are silver, with little or no anodizing. There is one sticker that reads "Mercurio d'Oro 1977" and another that reads "for professional bicycle only." With a sticker like that, how could I pass them up? They have no ferrules and the eyelets are only visilble from the tire side of the rim (just little washers sitting inside the rim. These rims are also "factory drilled" with two thinned out areas between adjacent spoke holes. They seem to be pretty light. So...

Anyone know the name of this rim? Its intended use? Was it a high-end rim? or a junker? This pair obviously dates from 1977 or later, but does anyone know when these rims were introduced?

Thanks, Tom Dalton

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