[CR]Olmo reputation

(Example: Racing:Jean Robic)

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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:40:07 +0200
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From: "Feeken, Dirk" <dirk.feeken@sap.com>
To: <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR]Olmo reputation

I've never placed Olmo bicycles into the top category of collectables like early Masi, Cinelli or Pogliaghis but have seen them like most other italian brands ( Basso, Rossin, Pinarello, Chesini, Somec...) as typical nice italian steel but nothing very special. But now I have here a japanese bicycle collectors magazin from 2003, it's a special edition "Vintage Road Bikes" of a publisher named "For Tasty Life". (they got it!) Next to long japanese illustrated articles ("The road to 700C") and japanese builders it features only a small handfull of collectible bicycles each on several pages with beautiful large pictures: a 1950s Bianchi, 1949 Legnano, 1960s Cinelli, 1970 Masi, 1973 Colnago, two Rene Herse, a Hetchins and a 1979 Olmo with nicely panthographed Super Record parts. Each bike has a small english description. Especially the Olmo is described as: "This beautiful machine was manufactured in 1979. It shows a strong flavour of the drilled hole period of Eddy Merckx, although it was made slightly later. The finish is actually much finer and more elaborate than his bike. Olmo has been known as an atelier which creates quality racing bikes with love to the bicycle" Does anybody else also see Olmos as on par with Masi, Cinelli, and the early Colnagos and even more remarkable as "much finer and more elaborate" than Eddies Masis, Colnagos and de Rosas?

BTW: the ISBN of this (for me unreadable but) beautiful publication is ISBN4-87099-892-0

Just wondering, Dirk

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Dirk Feeken
Heidelberg
Germany