Recently a group of friends met in Montopoli for the start of a two-week bike tour. One couple's tandem frame was damaged in shipping. We found Daccordi in nearby San Miniato, and they were very nice and accommodating to us as well as competent and fast - the tour left on time!
I have to say there's not much classic content here though, they're not really keepers of the flame; their current crop of frames are all aluminum and carbon, as modern as can be... But they still know how to work on steel at least! Their shop is covered in pictures of pros who rode their frames.
Mark Bulgier
Seattle WA USA
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> Tom Cagan wrote:
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> > Hi,
> > I wonder if anyone can tell me about Daccordi bicycles. I have an
> > opportunity of buying an early (?) 1980s one. It has an (on
> purpose)
> > bent top tube, and it is all Campy. The brakes are a strange
> > centerpull aerodynamic type that I've never seen before and the
> > crankset and rear derailer is very streamlined. The bike is in
> > pristeen condition.
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> A builder with a rather high reputation, the Daccordi
> factory is located near here.
> My oldest bike has a frameset made by Luigi Daccordi in 1972,
> and still holding out strong despite heavy use through the years.
>
> Can you send in pictures?
>
> Sergio
> Pisa
>
> P.s. By the way, next week I'll certainly go by Daccordi's.