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Old 02-03-12, 05:28 PM
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Picchio Special
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Originally Posted by KonAaron Snake
It's sort of hard to tell with the paint, but it looks pretty good. I'd say less clean than my Merlin (from what I can see through the paint) and maybe a little less neat than my two Litespeed builts, but close. It's hard to say. It's light as heck...genius fork, 6-4 DOs and BB shell. It was sort of hard to judge the ride with the rim thongs.
I want to say I've seen some less-than-compelling welds on some of the early De Rosa Ti bikes, if my memory is correct. It's still a neat bike from an interesting era, when haematocrits climbed as high as the Dolomites themselves, withe Gewiss leading the way ...
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