Originally Posted by
plodderslusk
As a Norwegian I feel slightly offended by the slur on DBS
. They were the Schwinn of Norway with one very sad difference. All their homemade frames are heavy badly made gaspipe beater bikes. But they made their own line of racing bikes in the seventies and eighties with imported frames called Internazionale, Professionale and La Migliore. The two last ones are often very nice bikes with full Dura Ace or Campagnolo Nuevo Record respectively. Frames were either French or Italian. I have a later La Migliore with a frame from Daccordi and Campy Athena wich is a very nice bike.
You will have noted that I qualified my statement of Norway being a cycling backwater at the time of the building of the original poster's bike. (Mind you, so was the USA.) This was definitely the case in the 60's and early 70's (except for the odd exception) In the late 70's, cycling became a bit more accepted, but as a whole Norway was still trailing other countries. If I am not mistaken, DBS belongs to the same group as Bianchi (Toni Grimaldi's company based in Sweden) and has been for many years and this could have been the reason for the Italian frames for top of the line bikes.