Here is a thread that is about Mancini bikes. It collaborates the Toronto bike shop story.

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...ancini-bicycle

Yup. First shop I worked in sold them. That was in Toronto in the mid/late '80s.
They were Italian made frames and I bought one built of Biemmezeta "aero" tubing that had a mix of Campy, Ofmega, Gipiemme, and Universal components with Nisi tubular rims. It was a beautiful dark blue with white decals and a chrome fork. Had a horribly harsh ride, but I didn't know any better at the time.
I remember there was a higher end model that was all white with all Campy stuff made from Columbus tubing - mainly because we had one returned when the poorly brazed BB shell/downtube joint failed, causing the chainring to slam into the ground and have a big flat spot ground out of it.
We stopped carrying Mancinis after that.