Re: [CR]Atala Grand Prix

(Example: Production Builders:LeJeune)

Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 07:31:13 -0500
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Atala Grand Prix
References: <20060727114401.95719.qmail@web30611.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060727114401.95719.qmail@web30611.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


Fred Rafael Rednor wrote:
> Nice looking bike!
>
> But this reminded of a couple of additional comments about
> these frames:
>
> 1) The nicer ones were built with the Campagnolo forged
> dropouts, front and rear.
>
> 2) But even the "lesser" version looked quite nice and was
> lighter than similar bikes made by Peugeot, raleigh, etc.

Mine's one of the "lesser" ones -- stamped dropouts and came with Valentino changers. But it still rides nicely.

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA