Yune_Garage 

Hi all,

I grabbed this frame set when I went to purchase a bike from a local gentleman a few miles away from me. He showed it to me and asked for a few dollars so I took it with me.

The seat tube and downtube decal outlines are still visible and spell out GARIBALDINA. There was a multicolor stripe decal on the seat tube and the front headtube appears to have had a large ‘G’ with the same multicolor bands around it.

I’m familiar with the much older 40-50’s era Gloria Garibaldina but this is something else.
The fork has a ‘G’ on the crowns.
The rear drop outs as well as the forks are both stamped ‘Gepiemme’.
The cable guides on the BB shell are stamped ‘Campagnolo’.
Besides those markings there’s a ‘54’ (size Im assuming) on the seat tube lug and nothing else. Nothing under the smooth BB, nothing on the fork steer tube.
The interesting details are the cable guide eyelets on the toptube and the seat tube takes a 26.6 post.

Any wisdom from those more knowledgeable would be appreciated!

-Gio

Yune_Garage 

Yune_Garage 

Oh, it also came with this old thing

repechage

The Gloria brand was revived in the late 1960's and continued into the 1970's.
I forget who built them but they never recaptured the interest and fame of the pre-war period.

Yune_Garage 

Interesting to know thank you.

i was able to find this early 70’s Garibaldina but it’s completely different in design (lugs, etc) on the chain stay cable guide eyelets are the same lol

obrentharris 

Is that top tube cable guide a double guide which requires separate pieces of housing on either side? Looks like it to me from the photo. A rather rare configuration. There is a Peloso built machine with this feature that was posted to the Classic Rendezvous list a day or two ago.
Brent

seypat

Does the fork have any rifling ridges like this?

Yune_Garage 

I went ahead and confirmed and the fork doesn’t have the rifling like yours. Its “smooth”. Thanks!

Yune_Garage 

Thats correct, thanks for the heads up Brent.