It sez "Piazzola Padova" and once more "tomas". Sorry, photo´s a bit
complicated right at the moment - as you might remember my computer is
on dial up POTS internet - so please don´t send any e-mail attachments
either.
Don´t get too excited about this bike - it´s basically a badly neglected mid-range item from the early eighties, I would say. Thanks for showing interest (or compassion, considering all the rust) anyway.
I bought it for the Bluemels guards, so it was a great deal no matter what.
Regards, Toni Theilmeier, Belm, Germany.
>
> Toni, what does it say on the sticker that includes Padova; or can you
> host
> a photo? Padova is on the eastern side of the Veneto, pretty far from
> Milan
> and Grosseto that Irio has been associated with.
>
> Angel Garcia
> Verona VR Veneto Italy
>
>
>
> Toni,
> Although there may be other bikes with this name I know from talking
> with him that Irio Tommasini, when he first started building bikes,
> used
> the name Thomas because he thought they would sell better in the U.S.
> There are very few of them around because he did not stay in the
> business
> very long for monetary reasons. Eventually, I believe, his wife
talked
> him into going back to building bikes and they became Tommasini.
There
> was one Thomas at L'Eroica this year that Irio himself tried to buy
> but to
> no avail. He doesn't even have one of his own first bikes.
> Best,
> Edward Albert
> Chappaqua, New York, U.S.A.
> ---------------------------------
>
> Funny coincidence that. Never heard of a maker called tomas before,
and
>
> then saw two tomas bikes in one day.
>
> First I came across one on today´s ride (1200 participants, wow).
Old
>
> chap overhears me saying to my son that a beauty of a Cinelli had
> turned up again after we had marvelled at it last weekend. Chap says
> that he´s one also, so I go to look at it, find the seat lug
treatment
>
>
> strange for a Cinelli, but the lugs have nice winged C´s cast into
> them, all lugs, with the name "tomas" in the fork crown and seat stay
> tips. The bike´s been refinished, so who knows.
>
> Next after the really super ride with sunny, but not hot weather, good
>
> company, great signposting, a good time, I remember that on the way
> home there´s a lost and found office auction. So what do I see there
>
> but a tomas racer, Aelle, 600, that sort of thing, dirty, patina, but
> ride away condition, and perfectly within the CR timeline, and again
> the tomas name engraved in the fork crown and the seat stay caps. The
> sticker on the steering head mentions the Italian town of Padova.
> People don´t want the bike so I pick it up for a Euro, 1.55 US
> Dollars.
> Best thing is it´s been retro-fitted with white Bluemels Club
Special
>
> mudguards - been looking for white ones for some time.
>
> But then, returning home I find tomas isn´t in the Used Bike Buyers´
>
>
> Guide. So, is there anyone who can enlighten me who tomas is/was?
>
> Thanks, and kind regards, Toni Theilmeier, Belm, Germany.