In a message dated 11/6/01 11:33:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, DJSowar@aol.com writes:
> Thanks to members of this group I was able to positively identify the bike I
> picked up at VeloSwap as an Ideor and date it at approximately 1961.
>
Congratulations on your Ideor ! My youngest son, Gaelen, 11 now, has been riding an icky-yellow repainted Ideor track bike with a Benotto fork as his road fixed gear. We got it very inexpensively as a frame/fork from a kindly list member a couple of years ago. He loves the rear-opening drop-outs, which are still nicely chromed. The main thing is that it is tiny, so it fits him.
Also, it has the most wonderful headbadge with a Flying Lion ! See:
http://www.classicrendezvous.com/
for an clean example. I'm not sure why Brian Bayless apparantly doesn't think much of these classic Italian frames, though they sure aren't Confente-quality. :-)
Gaelen calls it his Ideor Meteor. Maybe he'll learn to spin better ?
Glenn Jordan - Durham, NC