Classic & Vintage - one hour and counting...should I pick this childrens OLMO up?

22" wheel size OLMO.

missing alot of stuff and it is not that easy to find the stuff.
my thinking is the frame is of quality then I could build it up, fun project for me and the daughter.

You are the guy who was looking for a decent kid's racing bike a month or three ago, no? Then yes, I'd say you should. The auction doesn't say what the frame is made of, but at the present price it doesn't really matter. What's it missing, aside from the front wheel?

All true. Your call!

The lugs look like Olmo,maybe it is?
if you supersize the pictures you can see them.

most of these bikes have sketchy pedigrees, Dad's paint them up like their favorite framebuilders.

OH NO! now I got to go back to feebay and start searching for all the bits!

If someone knows how to lift and post the images here Please do,

host the photos at http://imgur.com/ ,

Thats such a cool bike, If your child grows out of it in a year or two let me know if its for sale as my child is only 16 months old

Here ya go. Lifted the URL from ebay's source code. Sorry it's the nds shot :p

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/$(KGrHqJHJCIE93WLseGVBPprKHCH)!~~60_3.JPG

Looks like it'll make a nice little ride! Can't wait to see it done. Good luck with the build!

Looks pretty nice. IMHO the biggest headache will be finding that front wheel and a set of tires. The rear wheel looks like alloy, that's a plus. Good luck with it. Kids love bikes so I'm sure this will be a big hit.

I have heard from the german website that one should waste no time completing these little classics...the kids hit a growing spurt and you may never get it done in time!
whatwolf- can you lift and past the other shots?

Looks pretty nice. IMHO the biggest headache will be finding that front wheel and a set of tires. The rear wheel looks like alloy, that's a plus. Good luck with it. Kids love bikes so I'm sure this will be a big hit.

smal bit of info- wheelchairs....and especially competition wheelchairs share the same 24" rims and tyres!

Nice. Doesn't look like it needs much at all, just a front wheel, stem and bars.

The front fork may (?) be a weird spacing, less than 100mm. My son's little Peugeot was 90mm spaced if I recall, I had it spread to use standard hubs, rather than re-use the original hubs. If you can't spread those forks, you can get the narrow hubs on eBay with a bit of looking.

here's the rest:

http://i.imgur.com/putEC.png

http://i.imgur.com/AsmOt.png

http://i.imgur.com/RmlOZ.png

http://i.imgur.com/65DRd.png

http://i.imgur.com/vMX0r.png

http://i.imgur.com/q6EQn.png

http://i.imgur.com/DRG7R.png

http://i.imgur.com/VYoD9.png

http://i.imgur.com/5Wsaq.png

Or view full album here: http://imgur.com/a/egml3#0

thanks for the pics, this is going to be a fun and challenging project,
like driving on the wrong side of the road in UK,

JYL- do you have any pics?

are the bars and brakelevers miniature on yours?

The bar was miniature, but also steel :-( so I ditched them for a narrow aluminum bar.

The brake levers - hmm, don't recall if they were miniature. My son is 12 y/o so he can use adult levers, I used some Mavic 440 SSC levers plus inline levers.

I can send you, or post, pics of the original wheelset's hubs. They are sitting, dirt and all, in the garage. But I'm leaving on a biz trip as I type this, won't be home for 3 days.

It looks like you can re-use the components, they look pretty good in condition and quality.

Not so with mine so I ended up replacing everything but the BB cups and headset. One thing, I didn't like the original gearing with not much difference between the chainrings (a nominally "10 speed" bike was barely more than a 1 x 5) so I went to a 50-34. Your crankset looks the same. Don't know how anal or original you want to be about the gearing here, but BMX cranks come in short crank lengths and many will take double 110 BCD chainrings.

For 24" rim and tire, also look at recumbents (front wheel) and BMX sources.

I don't think it would make sense to send bits from US to Finland, but if you really need the bar, stem, hubs, or other bits I took off my son's bike, just PM. I can check if the levers are miniature, they are Mafacs (with half hoods in poor condition) so no prize.

from humanreisberg (fellow forumite)


"Hi Mike,



The "Vittoria Juniores" tyres are also available on ebay:(note these are easy to find in sport wheelchair stores also!)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vittoria-Jun...item23199ca806 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vittoria-Juniores-Road-Bike-24-TUBULAR-Tyre-600-x-21-/150753552390?pt=UK_sportsleisure_cycling_bikeparts_SR&hash=item23199ca806)

But i don't know a source for small rims or any small handlebar, but they exist:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ARAYA-Model-...item2ebd970307 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/ARAYA-Model-20A-24-Vintage-Road-Rim-Silver-32h-/200749286151?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ebd970307)

But i also know, that the company MICHE has a production line for kids racing bikes, maybe they are offering rims too?

I hope this might help you, if i find any new sources, i will send you a mail.

Regards from Berlin
Kilian"

these are older CLB ones-
(stolen from this thread in germany, note our fellow forumites bike)
http://www.rennrad-news.de/forum/archive/index.php/vier-berliner-und-ein-dsseldorfer-98553

http://fstatic1.rennrad-news.de/img/photos/3/2/0/1/8/_/medium/clbkiddie.jpg?0

I recieved my little olmo monday. good news and bad news.

good- it is a very pretty little frame and I would love to rebuild it.
Bad- its a 22" inch and my little girl is too big for it!
I have decided to pass it on to any forumite for what I paid for it- PM me if interested,
I may be able to bring this stateside in luggage in august.

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f394/rivieraproject/bicycles/IMG_6631.jpg
sorry out of focus-just scratched and not rusty
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f394/rivieraproject/bicycles/IMG_6632.jpg
gipimme drops on front and rear
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f394/rivieraproject/bicycles/IMG_6633.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f394/rivieraproject/bicycles/IMG_6634.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f394/rivieraproject/bicycles/IMG_6635.jpg
cranks are ofmega and look in good condition.
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f394/rivieraproject/bicycles/IMG_6636.jpg

Greetings again-
1 Lugnut has decided not to pick this bike up.
prettyshady said he wanted it,
but did not have the balls to tell me to cancel the deal - a DEADBEAT
Andycapp has agreed to take it- It is now in the post to him.

Greetings again-
1 Lugnut has decided not to pick this bike up.

If there is someone out there who wants to build it- PM me.

I have found New tubular rims and tyres delivered to the states for about 140 bucks.

http://www.stefanoboggia.it/en/rims/338-cerchio-ambrosio-22-bambino-per-tubolare-corsa.html

http://www.stefanoboggia.it/en/road-tubular-tyres/567-tubolare-da-strada-vittoria-juniores-black-tread-22.html

I will bring this thing to the states in AUG or SEPT and then mail it on to who ever is interested in it.
or
shipping from finland is about 60 bucks

PM me if there is interest- or she goes up on fleabay.

1 lugnut just paid a hell-o-a-lot more for just a bare frame.

mike


100% interested here in Europe.

100% interested here in Europe.

PM sending, the future cyclist below.

http://www.prettyshady.com/2010/up/DSC_3012.JPG