Re: [CR]Mystery bike ID Bingo! It's a Girardengo Thanks Aldo!!

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Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 13:48:51 -0800
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]Mystery bike ID Bingo! It's a Girardengo Thanks Aldo!!
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Don Wilson wrote:
> (snip)
> Not sure what to do with it, though, since its so far
> gone. Anyone have decals for a Giradengo? Aldo says
> decals were sometimes put on upside down...quality
> control issues apparently. :-)

The occasional upside down down tube decal was a result of using prison labor actually. Girardengo bikes were assembled in the prison at Alessandria, Italy.

Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California

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