H, Kerry!
I'm not that familiar with Fondriest and its history (save that items I have seen are quite beautiful), but the on-topic era here is roughly 1984 and earlier. It's stated explicitly on the Classic Rendezvous website. One rule of thumb is that the cutoff was chosen by Dale the List Dad to identify the onset of indexed shifting and to exclude it. If your Fondriest frame has features that are intended to facilitate indexed shifting, such as cable stops on the headset at the downtube, it's probably too modern. But I don't think this is a general rule.
Best regards,
Ken Freeman Ann Arbor, MI USA
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Kerry Rapp <kerapp@mail.com> wrote:
> I recently purchased from a colleague a bike for my daughter to do
> triathlons. The frame is too large and we are "depopulating" it and
> transferring the Campagnolo components to another frame. The frame in
> question is a Fondriest, fillet brazed Dedacciai Megachrome tubeset. It
> has the most beautiful paint scheme I think I have ever seen on a frame.
> I have no idea the date of manufacture (w/in the last decade, I would
> guess). Does this qualify for discussion here?
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> Thank you for your input.
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> Kerry Rapp
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