My more or less annual plea to buy outright, or trade for, a pressed-lug De Rosa, in Ugo candy blue, from the early 1970s, with the short-point dubois lugs, as shown here:
http://www.43bikes.com/
55-56 cm center-to-top seat-tube only. Can be a full bike, partial bike, or just frame and fork. Besides color and size and lug-style/vintage the other non-negotiable is that it must be original finish and graphics.
If you have one to pass along, or know where one might be had, please let me know. I'll pay a more than fair price for the right example. I also have a number of interesting things to offer in trade, so let's talk if you have one of these.
Thanks.
Charles Andrews Los Angeles
"everyone has elites; the important thing is to change them from time to time."
--Joseph Schumpeter, via Simon Johnson