Mike Schmidt did a great job scrounging up a neo-vintage machine for L'Eroica, and the icing on the coprolite (you can look it up) is the head badge, from a Real bicycle.
Although I don't have all the tooling anymore, I do have one of the steel tables on which Real bicycle frames were built, courtesy Curtis Anthony at Via Cycles. The bikes themselves (I think I once saw one) seem to have competed well with Huffy in the class of curved double top-tube frames with swoopy downtubes...well, you get the picture. harvey sachs mcLean va ++++++++++++++++++++ Mike Schmidt wrote Curious as to what I am taking to Italy? Well this month's Rivendell Reader has an article on page 34 and Rivendell is selling decals for bikes that say "Resurrectio" Loosely translated from Latin, it means "piece of sh*t, with the right parts so that it qualifies for L'Erioca and if its gets trashed I won't care".
It started (ended?) life as a frame that Steve Willis of The Bike Stand gave me after a customer donated the frame. It has a Raleigh fork. Threw some Campy standard reach brakes on it, Zeus seat post, French stem & Bars, Coloral water bottles, heavy duty Phil Wood touring hubs with a 28T Campy freewheel. It looks the part anyway. I know it also looks like crap but if it gets trashed or lost, it won't ruin my vacation at L'Eroica.
Anyway, it rides well and I won't mind if I ride it in the rain.
Oh yes, the link
http://www.wooljersey.com/
Mike Schmidt
Stirling, NJ