Originally Posted by
onyerleft
DeRosa was a dentist bike. If you rode a SOMEC, you were in the know. If you rode a DeRosa, you had more money than brains.
Not in my experience.
The shop I rode for had three options with a De Rosa frameset.
Think of good, better, best.
It was all defined by groupsets.
The "dentists" were not racing att. Think of 22 year old's right out of college. They were riding for the local shops and/or schools.
A few bought the Campy options.
Everyone else bought the frameset with 7400 or Suntour.
I rode/raced with 7400.
Dentist bikes hit the front page here with Serotta.