Thanks everyone,
I have had quite a few responses, all agreeing that it is a Supercorsa, probably 1956 or 57.
Two people raised questions about the fork, which was not clear in the photos -
I have added some dropout and crown photos to
http://picasaweb.google.com/
They show that fork does have spearpoint ends and a horizontal cutout on the sides of the crown which I have seen on other photos of Frejus'. Is the fork correct?
Thanks for the help!
Mark Battley Auckland, NZ
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Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 17:50:47 EDT From: Hughethornton@aol.com To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [CR]Intro to another Kiwi, and 1950s Frejus age and model ID Message-ID: <cf8.ec51161.338dfa37@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: list Message: 1
I concur that this bike is a Supercorsa. Only thing is that there are no clear pictures of the fork crown and fork ends. From what I can make out of the crown, it is likely not a Frejus fork and the one shot of the dropouts seems to indicate they are thinner than Campagnolo dropouts, which is what they ought to be. So I suspect that the fork is a replacement (also because it is all chrome) but cannot be certain without more detail.
Hugh Thornton
Cheshire, England