[CR] De Rosa (Ed Granger)

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To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 18:38:12 -0400
From: <edvintage63@aol.com>
Subject: [CR] De Rosa (Ed Granger)


Jack Gabus wrote:

"The reason you are having a hard time tracking down a time line on DeRosa's at least the early ones is that they were not shipped in to the U.S. until the early to mid 80's (some please chime in here). Early DeRosa are hard to come by and worse yet there aren't any serial #s on them, at least not mine. This is why nobody has done any chronological order on them. If you go on Wooljersey there is a pretty good gaggle of them." ________________________________________________________

I believe Talbot's began bringing them in in the early 70's - perhaps Jack just committed a typo there? Mainly writing to add that Hilary Stone is currently working on a De Rosa taxonomy that prove may useful in respect to issues like this one. OTOH, De Rosa was quite a small producer right through the 70's and built a lot of custom frames, so there is perhaps more frame-to-frame variation than with some of the other prominent marques.

Ed Granger
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA