Originally Posted by
Spaghetti Legs
I had wondered as well about the quality of the Professional decal and I got the sense, also, that the fork is a mid 80's one but doesn't jibe with the rest of the bike. The bike came with a Miche headset which made me wonder if it was not original to the frame and the seller tossed in a cheap headset to hold it together.
It is a 62 and B5 on the BB. I mentioned in another thread that only the size was stamped on it, but clearly my memory was faulty. This bike would be a 58 or 59 and the only 62 I can measure is the down tube.
I don't really think the fork is at odds with the rest of the bike. A lot of the elements point to a build of around 1984. At least, I thought so till I just found what appears to be a 1992 Tommasini catalogue with a 'Racing' model with decal on the top tube. I didn't realize they were using that designation that late. This seems unnecessarily confusing!
https://steelspoke.blogspot.gr/2014/...alog-1992.html
At the same time, I'm kind of glad your BB stamping isn't the frame size. No stamping I've seen so far seems to be C/W frame size, so there's some other pattern at work here.