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I have two of these, one is too big (60cm) and one is to small (56cm). Bikes are relatively high grade for the time. The tube mitering is minimal, the lugs are nice Cinelli's, but are not thinned or finished well. The Giro and the Professional (the two top of the line) used the same frmae, but the Giro had a French crank versus Campy. I think they used Record hubs vs. Tippos as well. Brakes are Universal centerpulls (61 I think). I have never found one of these which seems to have all of the original parts, but there are '72 and'73 catalogs easily found by Google.

I have found the paint to be awful, but both frames are fully chromed (which does not help the already iffy Itialian paint to stick). However, they were (and are) very nice examples of bikes for their time.
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