Hi Medici folks. This is my first post on Bike Forums, but I have viewed the Forum via searches over the years. I'm here after a desultory search for decals for the Medici I'm working on, and i thought I'd add to the history/lore.

I got my Medici Pro Strada Osso (#63 OS 73) through 4 Seasons Bike shop in Yorba Linda CA, probably in 1992. It was my first real good bike. Steve Abrego(?), the owner of the shop, brought me to the Medici shop in Chino Hills where I met Gian. Steve brought me there so I could pick out my paint color, and probably to show off, too. There were a lot of black and white LA Sheriffs team frames hanging up in the shop. They were being repaired and built up because it was mid-season. I believe that when Chevrolet came on to co-sponsor the team with the Sheriffs that the colors went to green and yellow and another bike sponsor came on.

My bike is made with Tange Prestige OS tubes. I got metallic gray DuPont Imron paint. The top tube has an internal tube for brake cable routing. I got it with Shimano 8 speed STI Ultegra 600 components and it came with Campy Lambda wheels. And I just remembered, they had 20 mm tires mounted on them. What? I was 6' 2'' 190#, pretty close to Gian's size, and it's a big ol' bike. The black 3TTT stem is etched MEDICI. It came with a brazed-on frame pump peg and a plastic Silca frame pump painted the same color as the frame. It also came with two water bottles with the lion logos. Some of that stuff might still be bouncing around somewhere. Not in museum condition. I paid $1,800.00 cash no tax for the bike.

I've been working on the bike lately. But I apologize to the steel is real vintage restoration enthusiasts. I'm just getting it back in good enough shape to serve yet another winter on the CompuTrainer. I moved to a north suburb of Chicago in '95, so I spend many winter hours dripping salty sweat onto that poor Tange top tube. I just wire brushed the body rot off of it and the seat lug. I'll tape those off and spray paint them. The rest of the paint job is still intact, including the starburst Medici decals. I expect to get my 8-speed Ultegra shifters back from a guy who rebuilt them earlier this week for $100.

Maybe I can get it road-worthy enough to ride it with the boys on our recovery Friday retro-jersey ride one of these days.

Also, I saw a guy at Northbrook Velodrome a couple of months ago riding a Medici track bike. He said he bought the frame on line a couple of years ago.