Originally Posted by
3alarmer
...so if that's the original fork, I'd be curious about how the conversion to threadless was done. It's a Cromor bike, which is not a big deal, just means it was a little cheaper in the lineup originally. But I don't understand your description of the frame based on the catalog descriptions.
I don't have much else to add, other than my personal tastes on something like that find the addition of threadlessness in the headset and ergonomic bars fugly. So for me, those would be additional expenses for ownership and riding. But everyone's different.
Sorry if I caused some confusion. The talk of Tange tubing was in reference to the Lotus, not the Basso.
But this particular model of Basso seems to be hard to nail down. The catalog page you posted is actually from the 1992 catalog (you can see it here:
https://www.birota.ru/catalogues/index.php?g=b&b=298), and in any case yellow/green is not one of the color combinations offered.
If you look at this catalog page (the file name says 1990, but I don't see it written there), they list Columbus SL/SP tubing, but again there is no yellow/green color combo available. It's a head scratchier.
