After hiding in the original owner's garage for most of 26 years, this Zullo Special showed up on CL here a few weeks ago. No picture, too high a price and too little information had it sitting there for a couple of weeks before I made contact. Now it's mine.

Austin is a "hotbed" of Zullo ownership since the 80's importer was Bill Lewis (Austin) and was sold in probably a couple of shops around town. I know of three!

Remains of a model decal tells me it is a "Special" which was their work-a-day Columbus SL model. Great bikini lugs. I believe it was assembled in the shop using mostly 600 components.


Zullo is still building bikes, and was at the '09 Handbuilt Bicycle Show, and is scheduled to show at the '10 as well.

Zullo history and website here

Unknown year frame catalog on Bulgier here

It came with a "new" '96 Specialized water bottle, so that must have been when it was last on the road.