Regarding Peter Naiman's post:
>Subject: [CR]Price reduction: Vitus 979 for sale
>For sale; 50cm 1979 or 1980 Vitus 979 alloy frame and fork. Black anodized
tubing >with alloy lugs. Bike is NOS, built with Campy SR. I bought the
complete bike at >Larz Anderson a few years ago and it has never been ridden.
I'm keeping the group >for another project.
>Will sell for $275.00 or Best offer.
My Vitus may possibly have been black originally, but faded to a cool "black chrome" kind of look. The finish is very similar to polished HEMATITE (sp?) stone, if anyone knows what that looks like. Perhaps it was made this way? The depth and luminescence if it is similar to the old blue ones that I have seen, but I can see no indication that this was originally blue in any way; it seems to dark for that. I've never seen black ones that look like mine here. The bike came to me with a mix of better 1982 parts on it. Any insight into this finish? I can take pics of it tonight if anyone would want to see them.
Best regards,
Mark Agree
Detroit MI