Originally Posted by
inutil
Thanks for your reply ... furthers my Italian bike edumacation.
But seriously, how can you tell it it was repainted?
Bike in AD:
Is this shade of blue too light compared to GIOS blue?
Here is Yellow Jersey's GIOS respay:
http://www.yellowjersey.org/rpn.html
I agree, it looks repainted but there is a but, read on. Gios did prime with a dark red primer, this made the blue look deeper and richer, however it was the red primer that was banned not the blue paint, the red came from using red lead tetroxide(sp?) which was toxic so it was banned sometime in the 1990's. Which if you compare the earlier (before the ban of the red primer) the blue was darker than the newer ones after the ban.
So is the bike repainted or a new one made to look older?