I love Olmos. Most people don't know the history, but Colnago really went all in focusing on marketing to the US during the bike boom. Olmo couldn't have cared less. Sheldon Brown couldn't have been more wrong about Olmos, they were NOT the Schwinn of Europe. During the bike boom years an INDEPENDENT importer brought in handfuls of Olmos to the US and the price point in Europe and in the US was there with Cinelli, Colnago, etc for comparable builds. Sheldon Brown repeated a lot of stuff about Olmo over the years, but it wasn't true. Available in the US the only bikes that were imported were top drawer and all would be considered top-shelf above Centurion, Miyata, Bridgestone, etc.

Masi moved to the US the market here was considered so important. Colnago staked the future of the company on marketing to the US. Olmo couldn't have cared less.

Great history with him having raced in Los Angeles in the Olympics. He was a very accomplished professional racer, and Olmo is NOT the Schwinn of Italy. They are best understood as the Cannondale of Italy.

If I rode tiny bikes I'd take a pantographed Nuovo Record Olmo over a Paramount, Colnago, Cinelli, Raleigh, Pinarello, anyway. In some models only three sizes of Olmos were imported to the US. If you look through old english market OLMO catalogs they just didn't make mass market price point bikes, not that were being imported to the US anyway. I still think you can't be a serious sprocket head if you haven't owned an Olmo. Theoretically they had some 66cm frames and bikes come over, I'm still waiting to find one.

I once bought a 60cm just because the pantagraphing was so incredible. That'd by like someone on a 57cm buying a 49cm bike because they liked the components. Yes, I'm an idiot. I sold it on the condition that the buyer had to restore it. The guy that bought it parted out the Campy pantagraphed components on eBay within a week. I'm an idiot and a sucker. I contacted him via eBay. His reply, "grow up."