Burl,
To quote the '73 Atala catalogue, the Tullio material is
"high tensile seamless tubing". All the later versions of the
Gran Prix model (at least all the ones that I used to see) had
these stickers. This was teh Gran Prix that used stamped
dropouts instead of the forged Campy 1010s and Valentino
derailleurs instead of Nuovo Record. There still must be
hundreds of these bikes in NYC, since one of the importers of
Atala in those days was Stuyvesant/Corso. Were these bikes
common is LA, as well?
On the other hand, your's would be the first of these things
I've heard about that used the steel Campy crankset. Even the
earlier version of the Gran Prix (i.e. the one with Columbus SP
tubing, Campy 1010s, NR deraillers and NR hubs) used a cottered
Magistroni crank. But then, it is reputed that this crankset
was made for Campy by Magistroni. I don't know about that for
sure but I certainly do wish I had one for my Atala.
Best regards,
Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia
> Maybe someone on the list might know the answer to this one;
> I have an atala
> from the seventies that has a sticker that says genuine
> Tullio steel tubing;
> does this mean Tullio Campagnolo built this bike? maybe he
> had a stash of
> tubing and he put his sticker on each frame set? I showed it
> to Jim
> Cunningham at Cylcart and he said he had never seen this
> decal before but
> that my atala had a rare steel Campy cotterless crank.
> Thanks,Burl Simon in
> Los Angeles where it is a balmy 71 degrees
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