[CR]Gimondi "tubazione leggiera"

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Chater-Lea)

From: <CBKNYC@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:54:19 EST
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Gimondi "tubazione leggiera"

A friend has a bicycle he bought in Italy called a "Giomondi". He doesn't know much about it, except he bought it long (20 years?) ago, paid a lot, and the frame has the sticker shown below.

My impression is that there is a world of "classics" that never made it to the US, and so may be not well known here.

Anybody know what a Giomondi is, or what it's frame might be made from? An excerpt of an exchange about this is below.

Nothing urgent here -- just something that piqued my curiousity.

- Charles

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>C> Gimondis appear to be not well known in the US, but
>C>I saw a lot of postings about them in Italian.

S> I don't know if the tubing is Columbus. All it says is Tubazione Leggiera 0.9, with a tubing S> abel that say BZ with an M above (the M is spread out to look like two mountains, one above the S> B and the other above the Z).