Fwd: Re: [CR]Italian MONTE bicycle on Ebay:Anyone know this maker?

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Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 10:00:48 -0600
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: Brook Watts <brook.watts@comcast.net>
Subject: Fwd: Re: [CR]Italian MONTE bicycle on Ebay:Anyone know this maker?


Dale is correct, Monte did have a connection with Jasjit Grewal. How formal I do not recall. Jasjit may have been the local retailer through his shop. Monte sponsored a lot of guys and Jasjit was racing alot in that era as his sons would do shortly after.

Brook Watts Longmont Colo.
>
>The other guys got it right..... Aspen, Colorado importer..... made by
>Guerciotti (See the early Guerc signature "rocket" lug cut outs?)...
>Now my thought,
>wasn't this brand this marque some how connected with the Grewal shop (Dad to
>Alex and Ranji)?
>Either they were part of the deal or the early distributor or sales rep
>(probably die to proximity?)
>
>Dale
>
>Dale Brown
>Greensboro, North Carolina