This is my waiting for back surgery bike, my turn down the wick and ride what you can with L5 nerve pain, my drop weight and turn a page, this bike is about gratitude.I’m glad I didn’t win the bidding war for that vintage Italian race bike last week, it was a beautiful Italian race bike, but I am glad I lost.Because, you see, it happened again,….for the fourth time.I started this hobby by accident/luck. This hobby, the enjoyment of beautiful, crafted art, of vintage bikes you ride, you participate in. I never could do more than look at them through a bike shop window, in the poverty that is being a young man. But many decades later I went with a friend looking for vintage bike parts at a local vintage bike/car sale and there I came across a Nishiki Professional with a complete Campagnolo Nuovo (sp?) Record Gruppo and for a hundred bucks I started. Since then it has been joined with an even older Nishiki Professional, and a grail bike “H. Hagiwara-Erba” and then there is this, what I found and then won the bidding war on a couple weeks ago.

But first I need your help, here's what I can tell you about this bike from its frame and components:




This is all I know about the tubing used to make this frame, this one decal does it mean anything to any of you?
But there's one more thing, when I took it out of its shipment box I felt "light" and sure enough on the scales without its racing toe clip pedals the bike weighed 20.50 lbs.
Let me know if you can tell me anything about the tube set for this bike (and yes I will post pictures of the frame, etc.) later.