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08-26-11 | 06:00 AM

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Picchio Special

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Bikes: '39 Hobbs, '58 Marastoni, '73 Italian custom, '75 Wizard, '76 Wilier, '78 Tom Kellogg, '79 Colnago Super, '79 Sachs, '81 Masi Prestige, '82 Cuevas, '83 Picchio Special, '84 Murray-Serotta, '85 Trek 170, '89 Bianchi, '90 Bill Holland, '94 Grandis

Grandis didn't make a ton of different models, especially in the 70's. I would say mid-70's sounds right, given the frame details. It has the G's in the side of the headlugs like the one on CR, but the three-pronged Grandis thingy on the fork crown like this earlier Super Leggera:

http://sports.webshots.com/album/560084442lIIhii

Yours has a crown more like the earlier bike - which also has those trick top tube braze-on cable guides.

This Super Leggera is clearly later:

http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/v/...sSuperLeggera/

I'm assuming yours has the curved brake bridge, though the photos don't show. I'd guess circa 1974-5. Probably a top model - i.e. "Special" - built with SL, but without the degree of detail given to the Super Leggera.

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