Re: [CR]1980s vintage Daccordi bicycle

(Example: Framebuilders:Bernard Carré)

Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:07:33 +0100
From: "Sergio Servadio" <servadio@df.unipi.it>
To: Mark Bulgier <Mark@bulgier.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]1980s vintage Daccordi bicycle
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cc: Tom Cagan <green_gti@hotmail.com>
cc: Tom Cagan

Mark Bulgier wrote:
>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
>
>
>

I wholly agree.

Funny thing, Montopoli Valdarno is the place where the Daccordi business used to be located, before moving to San Miniato Basso some five or so years ago.

Sergio
Pisa