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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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