[CR]Fwd: For Sale- Detto Pietro cycling shoes, all-wood-soled, used

(Example: Framebuilders:Bernard Carré)

Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 22:52:29 -0400
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Subject: [CR]Fwd: For Sale- Detto Pietro cycling shoes, all-wood-soled, used

>From Joe Starck:

<< I couldn't find any pics of these shoes anywhere on the net, so here's a fullest description I can muster: I have no idea if these are desirable for collectors or not; maybe someone can post a pic or tell me what these shoes generally sell for, whatever. The black leather, faded where you'd expect it, is all intact. The wood is dark-blonde colored with detto #78 cleats; "Yellow Jersey" has these same cleats pictured in their "classic cleats" website section. Thin leather uppers with little diamond perforations throughout. There's a one-inch wide strip of blue-grey leather up the heel backside. The leather on these shoes are of a thinnness such that it all pretty much lays down flat atop the soles, not stiff at all, but supple, and I guess that's a good indication that the leather is in good shape and not dried out. There's a 1.25in by 3.5in leather strip "DETTO" logo sewn on one side of each shoe; these letters are upper case, and the larger "D" and "O" have centers colored in blue with a lowercase "dp" centered in the "O" and a lowercase "dettopietro" circling the inside of the "O" from six to noon. This label on one shoe is a bit scuffed; the other's fine. There's a small green/white/red lowercase "detto" label tab near the laces on each shoe. I've typed all this description not because I'm trying to hype a sale here but so that maybe someone can recognize these shoes and tell me what they are, like maybe model no. and years of manufacture of this shoe and whatnot. There's no size no. on them but they fit me, a 9ish, 42ish. The curvature of the sole feels great. I think these have enough cool-value to make a vintage rider happy for $50 shipped to lower cont. U.S. Joe Starck Madison, WI USA josephbstarck@yahoo.com
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Dale Brown
Greensboro, NC USA
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