Originally Posted by
rufus
the "renforzati", I believe refers to the spiral reinforcements to the tubing, so that's SLX?
Decals make it to be late '80's at least, but not that late, as it looks like the head badge is still the little bull graphic, and not the T crest. '87, 88 maybe?
And judging by the amount of chrome, I would say fairly high up in the Torelli line, which would make the odds of it being built by Mondonico much greater, although the seat cluster design is a bit different from the usual Mondonico builds I've seen. Not to say he couldn't have been building them that way at the time.
Tubi Speciali Rinforzati is Italian for 'special butted tubing ' and was used or the SL, SP, MAX and Cromor sets. The SLX, SPX and TSX sets stated Tubi Speciali Superbutted, so we know it's not those. Of the previous sets we can eliminate MAX and Cromor, as those labels specifially stated the tubeset name. Also, plus is visably non-round and fatter, and Cromor used a silver decal. Only early versions of SL or SP did not have the tubeset name on the decal. It's obviously SL or SP or a combination. That, plus the tre tubi statement, indicates it's an upper, mid-range frameset.