All that and EUR280.00 to ship here! My goodness, must come in a fur-lined box!
Marc St. Martin Livermore, California USA
-----Original Message-----
>From: verktyg <verktyg@aol.com>
>Sent: Jan 16, 2010 12:51 AM
>To: Rachael Ramos <ooki1998@yahoo.com>, Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: Re: [CR] SCIC Team bike on Ebay
>
>There's some incongruities with this bike starting with the white dove
>partial Columbus decal on the seat post and the CPSC quick release
>levers on the Campy brake calipers. Also the 1010/B Campy dropouts,
>where they available in 1972?
>
>After all, Italy is the land of "Sophisticators"...
><http://tinyurl.com/yhvkct8> (scroll to page 69 for the beginning)
>
>"Sophisticators" referred to scandals in the Italian food industry
>during the 60s and later where bread contained marble dust to make it
>whiter, wine that contained no grape product, butter and olive oil made
>from animal fat and so on.
>
>Remember, who created the phrase "caveat emptor". ;-)
>
>Chas. Colerich
>Oakland, CA USA
>
>Rachael Ramos wrote:
>> Interesting bike on Ebay...
>>
>> I recall reading that SCIC bikes were built by Colnago and this posting does mention colnago (it's in Italian so I'm not sure of the description). The photos show an old jersey, cap etc. Seems like the whole shebang. Anyone ever see one of these branded as SCIC like that?
>>
>> http://ebay.com/
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> George Ramos
>> Portland, OR
>> USA