thanks a lot for the response. I have been on the classic rendevous site and not found the columbus decals. I actually did some calling around and was told by an importer that the 'speciale' indicates a special order by someone, like the colnago gilco tubes. same sl or slx as everybody else but pulled in special way. However, it looks like almost all columbus decals said 'speciale' on them somewhere. I was originally interested because someone was selling a frame claiming it was 'columbus speciale' tubing and had never heard of it before.