I am going to offer this top of the line, special issue Italian built Miele for sale or trade soon. I have had this bike for quite a while and it is a cut above. I recently got an email, from a fellow who worked for Miele when my bike was made, and he has one just like it. This is what he told me and I edited the piece for punctuation and spelling. I also edited out any personal information pertaining to the sender.

I found what he had to say to be very interesting and fortifies my understanding that I did indeed have a team issued frame set. Here is the email...

Hi,

Just read your Miele 17 section, and wanted to shed some light on its origin. I was involved with Jim Miele's operation back in the mid-eighties, and purchased the same bicycle you got, which I still have. Jim Miele was an importer of mostly Japan made bikes, labelled Bianchi and later Miele, for the Canadian market. In 1986, he decided to have a racing team based out of the Toronto area, and Commissioned the Italian builder Pogliaghi to build his team bikes.

Pogliaghi was a world renowned frame builder, with its heyday in the late 60s . After Sante Pogliaghi's retirement, the workshop was sold to Rossin from Italy, a mid-size manufacturer, who continued to market Pogliaghi bikes. Your frame comes from this era. The trademark features, peculiar to Pogliaghis of this generation are the modified fastback seat lug and the round fork blades, from the track Pogliaghis. Tubing is Columbus SL except for the down tube, an SP tube with 1mm added thickness . Miele wanted a robust, no-nonsense bike that could withstand racing, falls, and rough handling by amateur racers. This is why the styling of the frame is different than mass-produced Mieles.

Hope this helps,

Montreal

Thought that you might find some of that interesting and I wouldn't mind learning more, if I could.