Re: [CR] De Rosa (Ed Granger)

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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 00:07:32 -0700
From: "Neil Bonnick" <l4.flyer@gmail.com>
To: <edvintage63@aol.com>
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] De Rosa (Ed Granger)


Hi, I own a 1973 DeRosa which was imported by Talbots of San Mateo for a customer who waited a year for it. It is finished in Molteni colors. The customer was a Merckx fan all the way.Neil Bonnick Seattle WA

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:38 PM, <edvintage63@aol.com> wrote:
>
> 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