Re: [CR]FB...GNUTTI...OFMEGA name change

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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 00:07:43 +0100
Subject: Re: [CR]FB...GNUTTI...OFMEGA name change
From: "Bob Reid" <bob.reid1@virgin.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <19c.5d81b56.2a71b2dd@aol.com>


Dave wrote ;
> Based upon the various assumptions and speculations, its still not documented
> that FB had no corporate ties to GNUTTI. As a bike component manufacturer, I
> don't know if GNUTTI is still around, but they did change their name to
> OFMEGA in the late-60s/early 70s, and continued to produce cranks, BBs, and
> HSs on into the late-80s/early-90s, Legnano, Avocet & Bianchi being some of
> their clients.

Where's the connection between Gnutti and Ofmega ? it supposed to have been Magistroni (unsubtantiated speculation) that were re-born as OFMEGA, not Gnutti....and not FB.

It's myth Jim, but not as we know it......

Bob Reid
Stonehaven
Scotland.