Hello,
I posted this a while back, and in hopes some new eyes may see it, I decided to try again toiday. With an upcoming week off work, obsessions seem to be flourishing ! My childhood friend who turned me on to biking built up this frame as his first true 'racing' bike - and it was a stroke of wierd luck I grabbed it minutes before it was going to be pitched out of a garage up in Northern Cal !
It's a late 70's Tommasini. There is a link below to Dale's site which shows a great example of the model and color scheme I'm hopin to reproduce - just not ENOUGH pics of the graphics. I did a little behind the scenes research to try to identify the owner of that beauty.. and I was gettin close and traced up a nice doctor in the midwest - but it turned out not to be the owner. Tommasini, the company (both IT and USA), was not really helpful.
Unlike the later models in the 80's and 90's (and current ones as well, for that matter), the lettering of the word TOMMASINI on the down tube is BLOCK rather than script. If you look close on the third image down, I believe above the name in smaller, lower case letters is the word 'racing' . And the head tube decal / seat tube decal is subtly different than the a metal head tube badge I've seen - in fact a '15th anniversary' version frame on ebay recently showed the newer, true metal badge.
I'm basically looking for someone with one of these, that can take high quality digital pictures to help me replicate the graphics. I love the color as well... almost looks like a Masi blue/silver, ya think ?? Seat tube looks to have an easily crafted multi colored band, plus the oval ITALY decal .
Thanks for any thoughts you may have.
Rich Pinder
Van Nuys, CA
fyi, the diamond in the rough is at: http://tinyurl.com/