hello john,

hope you are coming along well with the project.

wrt - fork: experience has taught me to be a bit of a nut on all matters related to alignment.

thought of two of the frame's dimensions you may wish to consider in your build planning.

these bikes came in built for 27" wheel with clearances for mudguards. if you should elect to run 700's the brake centres will be increased by four mm. the oem brakes were universal sport centrepull (economy version of the model 61) and had centres of 55.5mm front (caliper nr. 108) and 64mm rear (caliper nr. 109). their lower limits were 60mm front and 72mm rear.

the frames are designed with an old/traditional Italian geometry which includes a fairly long rear triangle and quite a low bottom bracket shell. had one come through badged as a Velocina with a shell of under 25cm/10 inch. this was with fully inflated tyres of the correct size and blades which were without deformation. shells this low mean one cannot pedal through corners and longer than standard crank arms are not practicable. running 700 wheels will lower the shell height by an additional four mm from what was original.

ran across this photo album of a complete machine which looks to date from somewhere around 1970:


http://twistcomm.com/Bikes/Garlatti/Garlatti.html