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pinch1967
11-23-10, 09:11 AM
Hey Guys
i have bought this TOMMASINI bike with Sante Components and will be picking it up in a couple weeks but i can not find much info on it . it has only one sticker say only colombus tubing it has engraved in the frame above the BB " Tommasini " . but from the pics of this bikes its not the normal " T " its a stylized " T " and on the bottom of the BB its has a T cut into the frame . also it has " Hand Made Italy" stamped into the frame . any idea what year or design of this bike is as soon as it arrives i will post pics thanks

wrote4luck
11-23-10, 11:31 AM
The Sante group would indicate upper middle level. Is it Columbus SL or SLX? The sante components alone may be worth as much as the frame if not more, they are somewhat collectible.
gomango
11-23-10, 08:01 PM
Post pics.

We'll help you.

I've had more than a few, and still have a Sintesi I'm rebuilding (yet again) this winter.

Very nice framesets, that's for sure.

Bianchigirll
11-23-10, 08:42 PM
if the parts are original to the frame when new itdates to about '88/89ish. bikes like this are sometimes hard to pin down a real "model" as often times they were sold frame only and 'kits' sourced fro other vendors. I know Bianchi never really had model name for the RC frames and I do not recall if 10spd Drive had models or just identified frames by tubing.

but please post pics when it arrives.
gomango
11-24-10, 03:48 AM
I read your post in the main forum.

So, is it a Tommaso then?
Bianchigirll
11-24-10, 05:04 AM
I read your post in the main forum.

So, is it a Tommaso then?

yes Pinch bought a Tommaso

we will have to see is we can get a moderator to change the title here.

personally I always hought that was why 10Spd Drive came up with that name in the first place.
shorthanded
11-25-10, 08:44 AM
man.. sante. god i haven't heard of THAT since probably 1987! not a super long lived gruppo that i remember-- and i don't think i ever saw it on a bike. i think they scrubbed it pretty soon after starting to make it-- so i'd think that'd put you easily in a few years of 1987- and as i remember it-- it was up there with 105 and dura ace-- i think it's basically in the slot of ultegra now.. but it really has been a while!