Hi All, Biemmezeta is an italian bike company with a complete line from delivery bikes to high end racing bikes and framesets, located near Padova. The frames were imported into the US through Tanner Cycles in Salem Mass. They ran small ads in the back of Bicycling for a couple of years - I believe in the mid 80s. I've heard that at some point around that time, biemmezeta made it into a Bicycling "superbike" cover article.
I've got two examples: a 96cm wheelbase crit bike and a 650c front track
bike, both frames have lots of nifty features. The road frame has full
internal cable routing, rear wishbone monostay, Columbus Air seat stays and
fork blades with aero fork crown, and a creased seat tube to recieve the
rear wheel and allows extremely short chain stays. The Track frame also has
the same wishbone monostay in back, same aero tubes at the seat stays and
fork blades, and curved top and seat tubes. Heres a picture of the track
frame built up into my winter fixed gear rider -
http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/
I bought my track frame in its raw state from Angelo Velotto, who ran Tanner cycles, unprepped and unpainted. At purchase time, Angelo provided me with a set of decals, I had the frame prepped at a local pro shop and painted, decals applied by a local frame painter.
The mono-stay frame like what I have is called the Chronostar, I've got some biemmezeta literature that also depicts the chronostiff, which instead of the wishbone monostay for the seat stays uses a modified fork! I believe that the earlier Biemmezetas imported into this country were of a conventional type w/out all of the fancy frame doo-dads.
Regards, -Chuck Taylor Scituate, MA
Dave VanHook wrote:
Does anyone know anything about this company? Thanks, Dave
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