Dennis Young got a couple of these Mags for several listers a while back, but I've heard from a japanese buddy here in Berlin that hte publisher folded this year. Bummer, especially since they had some really nice mags. I just leafed through the Campy special from last year; very sexy stuff there, ... Kim
PS: I very much enjoy Olmos although I will soon be parting ways with my 61cm '79 Olympic, ...
> 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
>
> --
> Dirk Feeken
> Heidelberg
> Germany
>
>
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