trevor.auer

Family heirloom. Ca. 1970 Bevilacqua road bicycle. At the time, understand LBS in Northern California imported as Bevilacqua's first prototype for the US market. What little I've been able to piece together is that Bevilacqua didn't manufacture frames. Instead, Galmozzi manufactured them and then Bevilacqua badged/decaled and sold them from Cicli Bevilacqua in Pescara, Italy.

This particular build is a mix of Campy, Sun Tour and Weinmann on a nom. 19" (48 cm) frame. Badging/decals includes World Champing stripes as well as Bevilacqua name on seat and down tubes.

Very interested in folks' reaction to / knowledge of this frame. Very little out there.

Regards

753proguy

Cool bike!

(NO wait, it's junk, please sell it cheaply to me, as it's all rusty 'n' stuff, and just my wife's size...). ;-)

Sorry I can't tell you much about it; I've heard of them, but I've never seen one. I guess it is a Galmozzi as you say? Circa 1970 sounds spot-on as far as dating it. That's the early, foil Columbus tubing decal (for example).

Bianchigirll 

looks interesting.

rootboy 

Somehow that paint job speaks mid 60's to me, but, don't know. Cool bike. been neglected a bit but worth a careful clean up. Some pics of the components?

AZORCH

Cool looking bike. That's a new one for me though - anyone have any further background?

big chainring 

I know Bicycling Magazine road tested a Bevilacqua way back when. I never saw one in person. I think it was a short lived import. Galmozzi was always one of my dream bikes. They were popular in the mid 70's.

Cool bike, like the colors and decals. Certainly a rarity.

trevor.auer

Thanks for input and interest to date. Had the pleasure of riding it when I was a pre-teen. Unfortunately, much taller / heavier now (56 - 58cm depending on frame). This bike was always stored indoors, but 30+ years in a garage will do strange things to just about anything. Imagine reconditioning wouldn't be impossible - fair amount of surface corrosion / oxidation; nothing structural, but replacement decals - if even go that route - may be a bugger / impossible to find. Definitely don't want to piece it out for parts.

Will get some pics of contemporary vintage components when I get a chance. Off the top of my head - Sun Tour drive train with bar-end shifters; Weinmann side-pull brakes; brooks leather saddle; 3 ttt quill stem; Campy seat post, cranks, pedals, headset and cable guides; Weinmann tubular wheelset (seem slightly smaller than 700cm to match frame size).

Have another "treasure" that I've got to get posted under separate thread - a Ca. 1970 Stella (62cm +) that my dad raced when I was a little kid. He abhorred badging / decals of any kind so it's just paint and chrome, but cut lug-work is pretty distinctive. Exclusively Campy NR and Ideale leather saddle. Two sets of tubular wheels - Mavic Champion du Monde (road cluster and low flange hubs) and Fiamme (criterium and high flange hubs). Same general condition as the Bevilacqua. He used to have a water bottle with a Jacques Anquetil caricature - wish I could find that!

753proguy

Yes, show us the Stella!

kenl666

sheesh, some guys get all the luck. All I got from my old man was male pattern baldness...

trevor.auer

Yeah, it's fun to geek out on these bikes now. I didn't really start riding seriously until after he passed away so we couldn't share that, but brings back a lot of good memories of sitting in the grass with coloring books at Thursday night crits, white-knuckling it while sitting on his top tube for a spin around the neighborhood after a training ride, hours-and-hours of trying to hear the TV over the rollers, etc. Wasn't fun peeling the petrified tubulars from the rims, though :-)

haddawad

Hi Trevor.
I recently acquired a Galmozzi for Bevilacqua bike (52cm) for a friend. We got it directly from the old man himself, Toto Bevilacqua, in Pescara.
I could send you links to photos of my Bevilacqua bike and more info on Bevilacqua, if you like.
It is hard to tell if your bike was made by Galmozzi. Can you post pictures of the bottom of the bottom bracket and close ups of each frame lug?
Would you be interested in selling your bike?
Regards,
Michael Haddad
Brooklyn, New York, USA
www.mikebikerepair.com

slotcar55

Hi Trevor ,I do not think this bike is attributable to Galmozzi, it does not present any design feature due to factories in Galmozzi,
I personally know Mr. Angelo Galmozzi, and I learned to recognize his leadership with his bike quite easily :-)

tangonights

Hi!
I'm restoring a frame that I can't say which brand it is. It's Reynols 531 Campagnolo tubing. After having seen your pictures I'm starting to believe that my frame is a Bevilacqua, at least the muffs look very much alike. Do you know if there are decals available for this brand?
Kind regards
Alexander

juvela

one bike shop which carried new Bevilaqua machines was Witt's Bicycles in Hayward, California. iirc they had them in the late seventies and early eighties. only in very small numbers. i think the story was that someone in the city was a relative of the manufacturer.

Otis

I'd agree, I do not see any Galmozzi details in that one but would like to see better and bigger photos. The fork crown treatment is sort of unique, and one I've seen on a Patelli, but I do not think it came from that shop either. It's a neat bike, post some better shots...