I concur with Charles that the oval logo with helmet was available until around 1976. I had many red and yellow label rims myself between 1970-76, and the shop I worked in carried both of these. We never sold the green label rims during this period, but I do not know when the green label production ceased for sure.... The red label was the most popular Fiamme rim and I built more wheels with these than any other tubular rim during this period. The yellow label weighed two ounces less per rim, and was priced considerably higher. A lot of riders trained on red label wheels and raced on yellow labels.
Brad Orr Alberta, Canada
At 09:24 AM 12/14/02 -0800, you wrote:
>
>The oval logo with the knight's helmet persisted well into
>the 70s, at least based on my memory of those bikes I saw
>new in shops. The square logo didn't start to show up until
>the mid-70s at the earliest. I bought a set of Ergals in
>about 1976 that had the square logo. How much further back
>it goes, I don't know.
>
>Charles Andrews
>SoCal