Originally Posted by
Glyndwr
The puzzling part is the pannier mounts near the front and rear dropouts.
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...those are fender eyelets. I suppose someone in Italy must have been making touring bikes at that time, but I've never seen one in person.
Originally Posted by
Bianchigirll
I don't think it was uncommon for nice Italian road bikes to have fender eyelets up until the later '80s when Americans found that extra few milligrams of weight unacceptable. .
...this. I actually have a similar aged red Pinarello frame in my "what am I going to do with you ?" pile. It came with that same Rally RD, which I thought strange, but maybe some of the not so finest ones came so equipped, or maybe someone just wanted more range on the gearing?