In a message dated 10/26/2002 5:10:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, langston@interaccess.com writes:
<< So that's the main reason why I was puzzled over an Italian bike being built with 531DB. But it was a team bike from the Vuelta d'Espana, and team bikes are sometimes built with different or unusual specs. >>
Maybe that bike was made incognito by a Spanish builder for that team using French metric 531 tubing? (smaller diameter = smaller seatpost) Spanish frames were often "French style." I heard Benotto used outside contractors quite a bit toward the end of Benotto's Italian period...
Dale Brown
Greensboro, NC