Re: [CR]Re: 1950's Galmozzi Super Competizione

(Example: Framebuilders:Cecil Behringer)

Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:51:40 -0500
From: "Joseph Bender-Zanoni" <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: 1950's Galmozzi Super Competizione
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To: hersefan@comcast.net
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cc: Huemax@aol.com
cc: Huemax@aol.com

Checking the other related auctions, the parts all look basically correct. $2500 for the deraillers and shifters, some $700 for other parts. Wow, a $7K partout. The pedals were apparently not original. A really nice bike I might pay $1500 dollars for. I guess I'm out of that market.

Joe Bender-Zanoni Great Notch, NJ

hersefan@comcast.net wrote:
> Regarding the Galmozzi,
>
> Is there certainty that the cable routing and bottle braze-ons are not original? Such features were certainly common, although not in Italy, at the time. And the internal cable routing does not look like something a contemporary builder would add.
>
> My only curiosity was the crown, as I'm not familiar with early semi-slopping crowns, but my sense was it is correct, and I did see a similar (if not the same) crown this past week and my understanding was that it was indeed an old example.
>
> Galmozzi frames seem to be quite gorgeous - and after missing out on one at the Cirque and looking at it, there is no mystery as to why they should be valuable.
>
> Mike Kone in Boulder CO
>
>
>
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> From: Huemax@aol.com
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>
>> Did anyone see this?
>>
>> http://ebay.com/<blah>
>> sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=170082300048
>>
>> Galmozzi frame-fork-chainset went upto 3750.00. A nice Italian bike?
>>
>> This certain frame has been HOT RODded? The internal cable and water bottle
>> mount are NOT
>> original, of course a neat repaint/laqure job...
>>
>> One of our member, if I may posted, John Waner bought one last year whihc was
>> quite high
>> price I thought, but what makes Galmozzi to polular and highly soughted in
>> the US?
>>
>> Cinelli-Masi, those two top Italian bikes, polularity has been known very
>> well, but what is about
>> Galmozzi?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> KEN TODA, High Point, NC, spring is coming just around corner!
>>
>>
>>
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