the guy in this craiglist ad actually stole the pic off of my site.... i've had 1 or 2 instances where there's been someone stealing pics from my site here in toronto and using it in their ads, but this guy is from charlotte

about your bike.... miele was based up here in toronto and ran by Jim miele. He immigrated from Italy and started miele in toronto. He made pretty solid bikes, i've flipped a lot of his bikes and i can't say i've ever come across a really crappy one, even the bottom end models were still way more decent then the compared models.

Yours looks like a mid - low end range due to components, but in saying that it's still a pretty good bike. for 55 bucks i'd say you did really really well, in toronto that would fetch pretty good if cleaned up with new tires, and wraps and so on.

My brother rides a really nice Miele SLX frame, but it's not one of the toronto made Miele's, we believe it was one made by colnago due to the details on the frame.

You still see a lot of Miele's in Toronto, they were very popular around here, and that should tell you something about their quality. unfortunately he sold the rights to the name and whatnot to another company and everything made under the new company was utter crap. But you can definitely tell the difference from the older stuff under Jim Miele and the newer stuff under whomever.

I actually got the chance to meet his wife before and she told me interesting stories about him.

just clean it up, new wraps, redo the BB and hubs, proper greasing and you have a pretty good bike