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09-26-19 | 12:41 PM

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KonAaron Snake

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Originally Posted by MauriceMoss

Although I’ve seen a BRM labeled frame (once) before, I’ve never found out what those letters stand for.

I ran across this red frame a few months ago:

I’ll have to guess that 'BRM' either an acronym of a cycling team or of a shop (and not necessarily in Italy).

I won’t have to guess about the frame though, as that is definitely a Patelli (of Bologna), likely built by Luigi Patelli (but from Umberto’s shop). They (Umberto/Luigi) did some contract builds but not a lot. Aside from these unidentified BRM frames and another unidentified frame marked “DP,” I’ve only seen a handful of contract builds Patelli did for Baldi, Marchesini, Castriotta, Marini and one non-Italian - the Swedish Flamingo brand.

Flamingo (I think from around 1985/86):

One of several standard Patelli fork crown pantos:

The following two show the lug pantos:

A less common Patelli fork crown panto:

I think you've ID'd the builder! Nice work...a brand I'd heard of, seen once or twice (and admired), but knew very little about.

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