Re: [CR]Mystery Bike

(Example: Framebuilding:Brazing Technique)

Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:50:18 -0800
From: "Morgan Fletcher" <morgan@hahaha.org>
To: Steven Maasland <themaaslands@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Mystery Bike
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Steven Maasland wrote:
> It is an Olympia: http://www.olympiacicli.it/home_eng.php
>
> The shape of the "O" gives it away. Olympia is the second oldest bicycle
> company in Italy.

I recently competed in a bike race (much farther back) won by Marzio Deho (pictured with Gilberto Simoni on the Olympia site) and Johnny Cataneo. They were on modern carbon Olympia bikes.

Morgan "apropos of nothing" Fletcher Oakland, CA