Re: [CR]Re: Columbus vs. Reynolds

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From: <OROBOYZ@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Columbus vs. Reynolds
To: langston@interaccess.com, rhawks@lmi.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 19:41:23 EDT

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