This fork crown sounds as if it is early 80s... De Rosa used sloping fork crowns in the early 70s too but as far I have seen were not engraved.
Hilary Stone, Bristol, British Isles
pbbikes wrote:
> Hey De Rosa fans,
>
> Who knows when De Rosa was using sloping fork crowns. I just picked up a
> de Rosa that has a chrome sloping fork crown with the "De Rosa" running
> parallel to the fork legs. The crown also has the heart cutouts on the
> side.
>
> Ive been googling, looked at the Bulgier collection and old ebay auctions
> with nothing coming up.
>
> Ive seen some of the frames with the tri colored decals on teh tubes like
> mine but, none with the same fork crown.
>
> Two more features are the columbus sticker that doesnt state the tubing used
> and the made in italy heart on teh bottom of the seat tube.
>
> any idea fellas?
>
> thanks a ton
>
> Barry Scott
> Mount Shasta CA