I've recently acquired what I believe to be an early-to-mid 1960s Pogliaghi Italcorse Pista serial #6844 built from Reynolds 531 tubing. Nice mid-blue paint, well-fined lugs, antiquing/fade paint on the head tube and seat tube, chromed twin-plate fork crown. Dropouts are not marked. This frame was ordered new in the early 1960s by a gentleman in Illinois, who raced it at Northbrook velodrome then stored it for the last 30-odd years. Came with Magistroni headset, Record bottom bracket, and the remainder of the build (which is currently being cleaned up.) Seat tube shows a half-circle stamping that says R A P in the middle, and the down tube is stamped REYNOLDS TUBING in an oval. Head tube is stamped POGLIAGHI ITALCORSE. Two sets of Olympic ring decals, each with the German and Belgian flags surround the POGLIAGHI ITALCORSE sticker on the downtube and seattube.
A question on paint -- I'm a bit nervous to continue cleaning it, as I don't want to remove something that isn't supposed to be removed (at this point I've used a mild cleaner and water with paper towels to do a general cleaning.) There's what appears to be blue or black clearcoat lacquer on the seat tube in between the Olympic ring decals that peels easily when touched, revealing the bright blue paint underneath. I'm not sure if that's supposed to come off (ie, it's dirt) or if it's removing paint. Any thoughts.
Also, does anyone have pictures of what the head tube and seat tube globe-with-olive-branches decals would look like for a bike from this vintage?
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I'm a bit unsure what to do with the bike at this point, as this is the oldest frame I've owned. It's in quite clean condition -- chips with surface rust, mostly, but no dents and no real rot. I don't want to make it worse :)
Enjoy!
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,+'^'+ sasha eysymontt
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