Tom, I'm not sure if we mean the same bike. I has posted about this eBay Della Santa:
I'd never seen a touring Della Santa before, but I like it including the extended headtube. I think it's perfectly OK for other CR members to criticize the extended headtube as ugly, I just happen to totally disagree with them.
Regards,
Jerry Moos
Big Spring, Texas, USA
> From: Tom Sanders <tesanders@comcast.net>
\r?\n> Subject: [CR] Jimmy Katynski's extended head tube Della Santa frame
\r?\n> To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
\r?\n> Date: Sunday, August 30, 2009, 10:34 AM
\r?\n> Folks, a short while back Jimmy
\r?\n> Katynski, a long time CR member and a friend
\r?\n> listed his Della Santa bike for sale to the CR list.
\r?\n> It has an extended
\r?\n> head tube. He asked what I feel a very fair price for
\r?\n> it. Since that time
\r?\n> a few people have assailed the virtues of that bike in
\r?\n> vituperative terms.
\r?\n> I think this is grossly unfair to Jimmy and exhibits a lack
\r?\n> of sensitivity
\r?\n> to his feelings. I do not think it appropriate to
\r?\n> diss one of our members
\r?\n> bikes when it is being offered for sale like this. No
\r?\n> attempt at anything
\r?\n> like fraud, misrepresentation, or anything like that
\r?\n> was made by Jimmy. He
\r?\n> thought he was making an offering to friends. I
\r?\n> wonder if he still feels
\r?\n> that way?
\r?\n>
\r?\n> If it is a matter of taste, I think one should take any
\r?\n> negative comments
\r?\n> they care to make off line in such a situation. This
\r?\n> all came across like
\r?\n> hostility to a great guy who had done no wrong and some
\r?\n> folks here should
\r?\n> examine their behavior in this matter. We so not do
\r?\n> so well when we are
\r?\n> divisive and not inclusive.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I like the bike. A lot. And I like Jimmy a lot,
\r?\n> too. If you feel like
\r?\n> making negative comments toward me, please co0ntact me off
\r?\n> line to do so.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Tom Sanders
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Lansing, MI USA