<< This is the best photo of the tubing stamp:
http://boxwood.subtle.org/
The diamond around it is what's most unusual.. In later bikes, it is a straight row of lettering & gauge size numbers. Very cool! Dale Brown Greensboro, North Carolina USA
-----Original Message----- From: sashae@gmail.com Cc: chuckschmidt@earthlink.net; classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:15 PM Subject: Re: [CR]Late 1950s/early 1960s Pogliaghi Italcorse Pista
On 4/21/07, oroboyz@aol.com <oroboyz@aol.com> wrote: > > That is a neat bike. > > was excited when he first discovered it.. It also was the infamous April > Fools joke bike that no one seemed to notice about the time that Masi Cali > #1 was being discussed (I notice there are no pics of it in it's April Fools > build up!) > > Anyway, Chuck, don't you think he means the faint Reynolds tubing stamping > circumferentially up towards the butted end that old Reynolds tubes had? > What say you, Sashae?
The 4/1 build pictures are still up, starting on page 3 of the gallery. This is the best photo of the tubing stamp:
http://boxwood.subtle.org/
Says:
BUTTED REYNOLDS TUBES
I've never seen it used before (earlier bikes definitely aren't my specialty) so I don't know how common/uncommon it would be on Italian bikes.
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