Originally Posted by
wahoonc
I was running 700c wheels as far back as 1974-6 on a a couple of bikes.
Aaron
I would expect that any Italian bike fitted with clincher rims likely had 700C size wheels fitted. I believe that I read somewhere that Michelin introduced the first narrow high pressure 700C clincher tires to the market sometime in the 70s.
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