Yeah, it was a 10 min ride over to goodwill to look at it in person. After picking it up... I felt ok with bidding. I've got a lot of really old Bmx bikes. I think after looking at a few thousand bikes and learning to spot quality welding, a tire , hubs or break cable to see if it's worth buying. You get the knack of finding stuff. I once chased a truck through a parking lot after spotting a rear dropout... picked up DG looptail cruiser for $100 bucks. Worst case.... I can sell it to a FSU student who will instantly turn it into a Fixie & break even.

Olmo made some very fine bikes. Plenty came with Campy dropouts.

A repaint or missing decals on a vintage road bike is less deisrable and devalues. I would try to move it unless you really like. And a frankenbike doesn't help.

I grew up in the bmx era so I get that, but its different. Those were built and rebuilt with best parts coming out of the era. We changed parts constantly as better and better stuff came out. I had a DG (with blue anno parts ()Hutch, JMC, CW etc and rode all types from dirt to vert. I have a couple 2009 DC shoe/SE PkRipper fixed I ride regularly due to my love for bmx, but would be odd to continue to ride bmx at 46 so I collect road now. Don't need to sell bikes so I just looked for high end stuff for myself to ride.

Bmx are survivors when era correct parts are on, road bikes are considered original with groups that have date codes or parts that are up to the level of the bike.

I have an 80' almost mint Cinelli with Super Record, VIP group and original tag and they are stunning quality, sharp lugs and it has a portacatena. You will know a Cinelli, DeRosa, Colnago etc when you see just as you do bmx.

That is a quality bike and it would haven been prior to some Cinelli changes but mostly would be different decals and probably geometry. I would start with older Benotto as mentioned.

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The seat post had a stamp of 26.8 but the back of the clamp seams a little out round so possibly 27 but 27.2 seem like a stretch.

Pinarello trevisio??