Buon giorno, tutto! While prepping listings and trying to figure out how to use a new digital camera since my old one went AWOL took some pictures of my 1960's Desimone. A fine example of the KOF art, it is fillet welded steel with some custom cast parts. No lugs and admittedly heavyduty construction ( but typical of the era). I'm somewhat surprised there hasn't been much discussion of this "marque" as it was once fairly well known. It is not for sale, though I would love to know more about it and who else has one stashed. BTW, Della Santa here in Reno owns the only other one I know of. Both of ours have been reinished. I went with black, he green; They were a both red originally.
I posted an album of it at
http://photos.yahoo.com/
While you are visiting my pictures at yahoo, I put up some of my 60 cm 1960 Cinelli SC, which after two decades in my garage is still looking for a restoration. Don't blame me for the condition of those lugs, it's been in arrested decay like that since I bought it. Anyway, it has those uber rare steel Cinelli bars & stem, the old logo hbar shifters, the dovetail Stronglight (semi?) cotterless crank and a chrome plated stoppered record front derailleur, tied & soldered wheels (front? why?) and Top 63's among other goodies. As pictured, $1500 and I will pay to ship it to the US48 or knock off $50 if you want to retrieve it. It came from Cupertino and it is on the C registry/ Wolf logs.
And I'll slip in that the '70 Singer ladies and '61 Carlton Franco-Suisse are scheduled to start Sunday by 7:00 pm, seller id is RBulis. I'll be adding more soon.
Thanks and happy riding. Riccardo Bulissimo Verdi Nevada ( Sorry Dale, I just now realized I forgot to properly sign off my last post, mi dispiaci.)