My daughter's early 80's junior 24" wheel Romic was built by Ray Gasorowski of Aelle, and it rode quite nicely, at least as near as I could tell, as it was of course much too small for me.
I've seen quite a lot of very nice Italian frames built of Aelle, from a variety of builders, many of them detailed and finished very nearly as nicely as SL frames from the same builders, but at a significantly lower price. These bikes seem to have been very much racing frames (as are most Italian frames other than city bikes), probably intended for amateur racers. I'm not a great fan of everything connected with Italian bikes, but I have always admired the level of detail and finish Italian builders were willing to apply to an affordable frame made from a less prestigeous tubeset. One only rarely sees this in frames from other countries. In the US most customers who had an appreciation of the detailing and finish would want a frame built of a "top" tubeset.
Regards,
Jerry Moos
Big Spring, TX, USA
> From: KvnMuadib@aol.com <KvnMuadib@aol.com>
\r?\n> Subject: [CR] colombus aelle tubing
\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
\r?\n> Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 3:03 PM
\r?\n> hi all. anyone have any experience factor (owned or rode
\r?\n> frames built with)
\r?\n> with aelle straight gauge tubing. i have seen bottecchias
\r?\n> ,somecs, pinarellos,
\r?\n> maybe even colnago frames probably others that escape me
\r?\n> at the moment,
\r?\n> built w/aelle tubing.i notice that the tubeset is about
\r?\n> 400 gms heavier than sl
\r?\n> though not substantially different from sp,weightwise. i am
\r?\n> wondering if it
\r?\n> just a less expensive tubeset to produce an economy frame
\r?\n> for
\r?\n> "amateur"cyclists or are there distinct
\r?\n> differences in say durability handling etc. etc.
\r?\n> .just a small diversion from the rhythmic beat of "bar
\r?\n> tape,bar tape,bar tape"
\r?\n> kevin ruberg howell nj usa
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