frank121

SOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!FS: 57cm Titan NOS frame and NOS chromed 1" threaded fork: $195 shipped.

Now you can get a great NOS frame AND a NOS fork for less than $200 shipped! I recently had this on eBay and it sold. However, the fellow who won the auction won because a higher bid was deleted. The now high bidder had made a previous commitment thinking he had been outbid, and I didn't want to put him in a situation of buying something he really no longer wanted. This is one of the most colorful frames I have owned, but it is too big for me.

This lugged steel frame measures 57cm center to center, with a 56.5cm top tube. The paint scheme is a gorgeous black and purple smoked marble color and very cool looking flame decals on the top tube and on the chainstays (flame decals are not clearcoated so you could remove them if you so desired), making this look like a very expensive custom frame. There are no tubing decals (decal on the frame indicates the painter, "Varnished by Dossena Carlos", which I have seen on a high-end Guerciotti frame I owned), but the seat tube has spiraling at the butt and could be Columbus SLX steel. The nice lugs have heart-shaped cutouts filled in white. The chain stays and seat stays are chromed. This is a very beautiful and well-made quality Italian frameset. The fork looks to be a new old stock 1" threaded and chromed Tange fork with a 27.0 crown.

The horizontal dropouts are Campagnolo (no dropout screws included) and measure 126mm wide. The 1" headtube measures 160mm tall, and the bottom bracket measures 70mm wide. There is a braze-on front derailleur tab, two sets of water bottle bosses, a pump peg, rear brake cable is routed through the top tube, brazed-on down tube shifter bosses, three slanted cutouts in the bottom of the bottom bracket shell, and derailleur guides built into the bottom of the bottom bracket shell. This frame has not been prepped yet...it is as if it stepped out of time from the box where is was placed when brand new several years ago.

This is an Italian-built frame, but the actual builder has not been identified. It very much resembles a couple of Daccordi's I have owned, but that is just an experienced guess. This frame is in excellent condition with no chips, scratches, dents, dings, or rust to the paint or chrome. It has been completely treated with Boeshield T-9 rust prevention spray.