Jack,
That appears to be the same bike as the one I saw in Kyoto.
Dennis Young Hotaka, Japan
> Is it this bike http://www.mookietwoh.com/
> in a Japanese magazine circa the 1990s ? Pretty odd that one.
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> I think it's at least possible that Cambio Corsa/Paris Roubaix equipped
> De Rosas could exist.
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> Ugo would have been 18 years old when the Gran Sport arrived on the
> scene in 1952. But he was already building bicycles by then, and in his
> own name. The history page on the De Rosa site says "In the early
> fifties Ugo De Rosa opened his first
> shop and dedicated himself to the manufacture of racing bicycles."
>
> But, maybe he preferred Simplex ;^)
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> -Jack Bissell
> Tucson, Az
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> http://www.mookietwoh.com/
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>> I saw the same bike in the same shop. According to Legend, it was
>> made in the early 70s Nagasawa discovered it and brought it back
>> from Italy when he was at DeRosa. Don't blame me for any
>> misinformation, that's the legend.
>> --Scott Davis under Typhoon 23 alert, Kobe Japan.
>> *********************************************
>> I saw a bike with the DeRosa name on it and a Cambio Corsa set-up. It
>> had a
>> price tag of over ten grand! The bike was hanging from the ceiling in
>> a
>> Kyoto bike shop, too high up to examine closely. Is such an original
>> bike
>> possible? It looked fishy to me from afar.
>>
>> Dennis Young
>> Hotaka, Japan