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Originally Posted by TheOtherGuy
Oh- the crimped tubes and internal cable routing were typical of the "Ghibli" model, but I don't recall if they were SL or SLX. - Your decal is SL, though. Here's an image from what may have been '87-'88 TSD catalog. They imported Rossin to the USA, and I believe were painting them in the States then.
I looked up pics of the Ghibli, although mine has the internal cable routing, the seat, top and down tubes on the Ghibli are crimped the same way. It's only the downtube on mine while the top tube is only slightly crimped. Though I like the fact that mine shares some features of their flagship model.

The other thing is that the Ghibli is full of pantographs and there's not a single one on mine.
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