Dennis,
I'm an OLMO fan and I know there are others on the list too as I've corresponded with many of them over the years. Relative to your question though, OLMO does not have the following or mystique that other marques frequently discussed on this list have. Maybe due to OLMO being a very large manufacturer of bikes ranging from low end kids all the way to high end, hand crafted. Certainly their top tier bikes were well crafted and no better nor worse then other top Italian framesets. I'm not up on the racing history of OLMO but imagine that a relative lack of successes may also have something to do with it. I own a ca. 1979 OLMO Competition Titanio (Campagnolo SR full Ti kit) with chromed headlugs, lots of bling since she's fully pantographed and a ride that is just wonderful (to those who know me and this bike, yes, I finally started riding her last fall).
Here are some pics from 2004 Larz show (pic 0201 - 0208):
http://www.wooljersey.com/
I think they are undervalued and underappreciated at the moment but as other marques escalate out of reach for many, I believe there will be more talk and focus on the upper tier bikes.
Eric Elman Somers, CT USA
FYI, pic 0209 and 0210 are my 1974 Raleigh Team bike SB19
> The other day a beautiful late sixties Olmo popped up at the Japan
> auction, I believe the same model as Aldo's famous bike, and similarly
> abundant in the "mojo" department. It was too large for me, so the
> enterprising spirit took over and I thought to pick it up and offer it at
> ebay. When I checked out some of the earlier ebay Olmo auctions, it
> seemed that there was not a whole heck of a lot of bidding warfare over
> this marquee. Winning bids were not above a couple hundred dollars, even
> for very nice thirty year old frames. Is my impression correct, that
> there is not so much interest when it comes to Olmo amongst classic
> devotees in general? Just a wonderin'......?
>
> Dennis Young
> The word "mojo" brings up 701 matching posts when searched at the CR list
> archives, and also sounds very similar to a choco drink in Hotaka, Japan
>
>> Try the right side of the seat lug. Might be buried under paint, if
>> there are several coats.
>>
>> Steve Maas
>> Long Beach CA USA
>>
>>
>> dgranger@comcast.net wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi again, all,
>>>
>>> I also received, today, an Olmo frame, fork, h/s, b/b, crankset, front
>>> and rear der.
>>>
>>> It has been repainted at least twice.
>>>
>>> Can anyone tell me where to find the serial number? Once I find it,
>>> will it help me date the frame at all? I'm pretty sure it's late 50's
>>> or early 60's due to Gran Sport front and rear derailleurs, campy rear
>>> dropout with hole for spring, etc...
>>>
>>> So where do I look for that number?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Duncan Granger
>>> Mountville, PA