Re: [CR]Ideore bike Campy Salt Lake CL $400

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From: "Gear" <gear@xmission.com>
To: "Peter Jourdain" <pjourdain@yahoo.com>
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:42:48 -0600
Subject: Re: [CR]Ideore bike Campy Salt Lake CL $400
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Hi Peter, thanks. If this is the bike that passed through my shop(s), it is red over chrome. Hard for me to tell in the photos as well, but how many can there be? I've also worked on or owned a fully chromed Ideore track bike, a blue flam road bike and a fully chromed road bike. Unfortunately, all were too large for me, as is this red one. I know where the track bike is - the basement bike room of a friend in SLC, whom I passed it along to since I couldn't ride it. I note that the seller states no shipping for this bike. If someone out there wants it, and it helps the bike find a home, I would be happy to be the mule, pick it up, ship it, whatever helps.

Regards,
Greg Overton
Logan, usually, Utah


----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Jourdain
To: Gear
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: [CR]Ideore bike Campy Salt Lake CL $400



> Hi, Greg and List Mates---
>
> Nice either flamboyant ruby (red paint over silver
> paint base) or chromovelato (red paint over chrome)
> Ideor (can't really tell from the pictures on my
> cheesy computer). Both treatments were available on
> Ideors, but I don't know how long into Ideor's history
> the chromovelato was an option. I've seen it on late
> '50s frames but not on '60s.
>
> When I first joined the list three or so years ago my
> opening question was regarding my then recently-found
> 64cm 1960 Ideor Asso Olimpic in ruby flam. Many
> listmembers were extremely helpful by providing
> information, including old Ideor adverts from
> magazines. Montrose Bikes in California was the (or
> one of the) main distributor for Ideor, which was
> rumored to have been started by ex-Cinelli employees
> in Milano.
>
> Do check out the archives on the above.
>
> Chuck Schmidt has a great repro Ideor catlogue at
> http://www.velo-retro.com/list.html
>
> The catalogue gives you the various models (there were
> five or so in the range). Most of the bikes were the
> same (Columbus tubing), but the lowest end version had
> Mannesmann tubing. All the other models were virtually
> identical, but the parts specs going more and more
> Campy and less and less Magastroni as you went up the
> line until you reached the top---the Asso
> Professional.
>
> My Asso Olimpic was billed in the catalog as being
> "for the young rider with big ideas ahead," or
> something like that. Unfortunately I am neither young
> nor have I any big ideas...But I still love the bike.
> Rides beautifully.
>
> One thing I've never discerned is how late into the
> '60s (or possibly early '70s) Ideor functioned as a
> going concern. They kind of drop off my map in the
> mid-sixties.
>
> If somebody on the list buys this bike, would you
> PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE consider taking photos and
> displaying them on Wool Jersey or elsewhere, as there
> is a paucity of pictures of original Ideors on the
> web. Mine is a neat bike but extremely shabby compared
> with the one in Salt Lake. It would be fantastic if
> somebody nabbed that bike and did it justice with a
> nice photo spread.
>
> Cheers to all---
>
>
> Peter Jourdain
> Steamy Whitewater, Wisconsin
>
>
>
>
> --- Gear <gear@xmission.com> wrote:
>
>> For your consideration, here's the link to an Ideore
>> on the Salt Lake
>> Craigslist, looks about a 60cm. No relation to bike
>> or seller, although
>> I think this bike came through my shop a several
>> times a few years ago.
>>
> http://saltlakecity.craigslist.org/bik/186583393.html
>> Brings up the question of just how well Ideore bikes
>> were/are regarded.
>> I had never heard of them until coming to Utah years
>> ago, but have seen
>> quite a few here. Must've been a local shop sold on
>> them back in the
>> day. Comments?
>>
>> Greg Overton
>> Logan, but SLC right now, Utah
>>
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