[CR]Classicrendezvous Digest, Vol 19, Issue 83. Roto/Reg products.

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Chater-Lea)

From: "Bicycle Specialties" <mjbarry@on.aibn.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 12:09:55 -0400
Subject: [CR]Classicrendezvous Digest, Vol 19, Issue 83. Roto/Reg products.

The Rampinelli Company of Italy made a good range of components under the Reg and Roto names in the mid 1970s into the 1980s. The Roto pedals were not too bad, all chromed steel and of similar quality to Lyotard. They made good steel headsets similar to Campag. and a good range of investment cast lugs, b/b shells, drop-outs and fork crowns. We built quite a few Mariposas with them. They also made derailleurs which seem to be pretty poor copies of Huret. There was a front derailleur which was an almost exact copy of the Simplex Prestige. I assume Rampinelli and their products were swept away by the Japanese. Mike Barry. Bicycle Specialties, Toronto.