I believe that bike once belonged to list member Angel Garcia.
Mike Schmidt
Stirling, NJ
> In a message dated 12/11/2004 4:42:41 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> veronaman@comcast.net writes:
>
> << originally purchased from the Stuyvesant Bike shop in NYC. >>
>
> Re:
>
http://ebay.com/
>
> These bikes were really pretty special and are certainly collectible IMO.
> I think they came a year or two after that auction's stated date of
1981-82,
> more like 84-85 methinks... They were part of the Italian answer to the
> Aerodynamic fad that included the Shimano AX components, etc.
>
> I also question a bit about that bike coming from Stuyvescents, as they
were
> not Colnago dealers but pushed Bottechia and Atala; Sarah up at Conrad's
Bike
> Shop had a lock on Colnago for Manhattan at that time I seem to recall.
(Don't
> cross her!)
>
> No matter... Every lug was specially made, investment cast, for that
model.
> Imagine all that trouble for 25 bikes (I am not sure that's true either
but
> there were very few made. I would guess more like 250 would be closer to
the
> truth...)
>
> The seat post was an odd tiny size (22 MM in diameter?) and fit into a
> tubular sleeve brazed inside the aero seat tube. Very odd and a lot of
trouble to
> make! We sold two or three of those bikes at cycles de ORO back then. One
went
> to a woman rider in Raleigh .. her bike was fully chromed in a brushed
finish
> with translucent "Chromo Velato" blue paint. Stunning!
>
> Finally, although Tony Rominger's bike was referred to as an Oval CX, it
> shared little with these older bikes except aero tubes and his Hour Record
bikes
> frame tubes were just squished a bit. Not those older lugs, etc. (That
still
> was cool that Tony did that on such a traditional lugged steel bike.)
>
>
> Dale Brown
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