Originally Posted by
djkashuba
Perhaps you are referring to this fellow? He told me that the frame was made with the help of Tomassini while Tomassini was working at Cinelli. Gentleman ran a shop in Reno and sold Lemond his first bikes.
That's the guy. His name is Rick. I remember seeing his eBay posting for that tall Cinelli's twin (he ordered it a couple years after he got the orange one in case anything happened to the orange one). Quite a character (and I meant that in a good way) - he would cheerfully talk to, and share opinions with, pretty much anyone. He told me about Tomassini helping build the frame, but I missed out on him selling bikes to Lemond, not that I'm surprised.