[CR]Fiorelli "Vittoria" frame

(Example: Framebuilding:Brazing Technique)

From: "Norris Lockley" <norris@norrislockley.wanadoo.co.uk>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 01:36:48 +0100
Subject: [CR]Fiorelli "Vittoria" frame

I don't think that this frame is anything to get excited about. I reckon it is a pretty low-level model, produced by Fiorelli, to capture a non-specialist market, in the same way that Peugeot has produced frames under brand-nmaes such as Helium, Talbot etc, and Gitane has used Cyrille Guimard, Jacques Anquetil.. to name but a few.

The Ballila brakes are pressed steel, the Magistroni chainset .. well that company made better ones at that time... and the top-end Fiorellis had those beautiful chamfered top-eyes in the style of Atala, Frejus, Olmo and so many others.

The frame and its bits would make an interesting enough Italian stallion... but only a somewhat emasculated one.

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