I remember my parents having road bikes when I was a kid- they'd bought them in Italy while living there during part of college and ridden them all around the country.

They later developed chronic fatigue syndrome and stopped riding them. Our house wasn't very big, so the bikes rusted up outside. I don't have any strong memories of what the bikes looked like.. Wish I did!

This thread made me remember that, and now I'm having horrible visions of vintage lugged-steel all-campy Cioccs or something that probably went in the scrapheap as piles of oxidized metal.

They were probably more like Italian Huffys though The 'rents were broke college kids back then.