Wow, a lot of food for thought! Great photos; my frame has the same look to the forks with openings at the dropout. I almost bought a Patelli; now it looks as if I might already have one in disguise. There is the "Gianni Zuffi" labeling going down the top of the DT. I, in my perpetual ignorance, thought it was a previous owners name. I think I'm going to come up with a weird phonetically spelled name for myself, but I'll have trouble making it sound Italian, I think the German side of me would win out in the pronunciation. Anyways, good to know info about this frame; I'll get some more photos up showing some more detail. I'm learning more everyday, so thanks to everyone for pulling me along. I may have been riding for decades, but just getting into building "eroica" rides. My biggest problem is not being able to figure out what parts I want installed as I have about 2 dozen frames worth of parts and only 20 frames to fit.