Tommasini ID
 

In my never ending floating around the net, I occasionally download an image without recording what it was or where I got it.

I found these 2 images of the same bike awhile back and now I'm wondering what model this is and if it belongs to somebody we know? I sure do love the way it looks.

Any information appreciated. Although I believe I took them from a classified listing, I hate to post someones personal photos without giving due credit.

55/Rad

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/2...masini1gu3.jpg

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/379/tommasinico6.jpg

Hey 55/Rad, Thats a Tommasini 'Comp.' (competizione) '91 vintage. The four color flip-flop paint is Tommasini's "Quattro Colore" paint scheme. It was offered in two formats; one with candy red base, and the other was pearl white base. Mine is just like it, only with the pearl white base, with candy maroon, candy blue, candy lime, and candy pink four color panels.

frame was Columbus SL

Very cool - thanks for the information. Any chance you can post a photo of your own? I absolutely love the look of this frame and would like to see others.

55/Rad

uh oh, Rad's got the vintage bug REAL BAD.
next up a mondarian Rossin, after that I'd say
a Carlsbad Masi, early 70's Colnago Super. . .

wait, you'll see!

marty

That and a full chrome frame in need of a paint job. ;)

Yeah, mine is almost like it. I have never seen another one like these two, on the web or anywhere. A while back a friend of mine e-mailed me some scanned pages of an old Tommasini brochure depicting my frame and the one you showed. I think it is somewhere in my computer. (i think)

The competiziones were the lightest of the lugged steel frames, all handmade in Italy with Columbus SL, and the "Foderi Laminati" chrome fork. Believe were only offered for maybe two years. Like I said, I never seen another one. Here's a link of mine from another forum.

http://forums.roadbikereview.com/sho...ight=tommasini

After you identified it, I went searching and was looking at that one wondering if it were yours. I was thinking - "beautiful wheels, but I sure wish I could see the whole bike" - then came the final shot.

Very, very nice - what size is it? How she ride?

55/Rad

I remember Loving the Tommasini and Guerciotti ads int he Bike Magazines in the 80's :) Those bikes exuded so much that was "Italian"!

Those major brands were imports by a company called "10 Speed Drive Imports"

http://www.bulgier.net/pics/bike/Cat...i85(tsd)/2.jpg

Believe me, I did'nt really want to post that final shot because the resolution of my camera kinda sucks at that range. I was going to 'steal' my son's 5.0 mp camera and re-shoot it.

The frame is all chromed and factory painted over. It's a 54 cm. The bike rides very sweet, with the almost predictable classic resilience. Believe it or not, but it only had a few hundred miles on it when I bought it. It lived in a garage for 10 years.

Viper - I need to borrow some of those magazines.

WR - I need to borrow that bike, even if it's the wong size. What say you send it to me and I'll...I'll...I'll take some photos....yeah, I'll take some photos....:)

55/Rad

Oh I know how you feel when it comes to these classic Italian bikes.

I'm the same way,.........they can make you do "desperate things"!!

Here's some more pics I dug up. Oh yeah, you know I commute to work on this bike everyday.

Rebadged Alan. Hmmmmm..nice!

That one looks like its about to break, just like every other Alan I've seen.:)

It was mine before I sold it last summer
 

It is indeed a beautiful frame. I sold it last year, and I believe it has sold again since. If anyone would like the originals in jpeg, send me an e-mail at retrofan531 at allegiance dot tv

Here is my description from my ad.
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This Tommasini Comp frame measures 56cm from the center of the bottom bracket to the top of the top
tube with a 55.5cm top tube. The frame tubing is Columbus SL with chromed rear stays. The Tommasini "T" is cut out of the bottom bracket shell, and is also engraved in the headtube lugs, bridge stay, and fork crown. The bike, according to Bill Lewis who used to be the Tommasini distributor in the US, is painted in a Quattro Colori in a rare red, rather than white, main color with white, blue, yellow, and pink contrasts. The color pattern is flip-flopped on either side. You have to see the pictures to appreciate the brilliance of the color and artistry in the paint scheme. I have never seen a bike painted like this
one...it is truly unique and will draw attention and admiration even from non-cyclists.

The rear brake cable is routed internally through the top tube, there is a braze-on front derailleur tab and
downtube shifter bosses, a pump peg, and two sets of water bottle bosses. The headtube measures 135mm with a 185mm 1" threaded steerer on the chromed fork. The rear dropouts are horizontal with dropout screws included and measure 130mm wide. Takes an Italian threaded bottom bracket (I tried one and could spin a Campy bottom bracket in by hand). There are some scratches and chips that have been touched up (mainly on the right side of the bike) with the most noticeable area on the white area of the top tube. This was a lightly ridden never crashed used bike and was fanatically maintained by the owner. However, it is used and there are the nicks and chips that would be expected of a used bike of late 1980's vintage. There is a crinkling and tear of the Tommasini seat tube decal (maybe when it was built), but the condition of the bike is excellent and the overall appearance of the bike is spectacular. The chrome on the stays is excellent, and the chrome on the fork is new. This bike has very few miles and is really vibrant and striking in person. The frame and fork have been completely treated inside the tubes with Boeshield T-9 rust prevention spray.

This frame will turn heads wherever you go. It is stunningly beautiful! Once you admire the workmanship,
quality, and artistry of this frame and fork, then build the bike up and ride it, I think you will understand why I and other Tommasini owners love their Tommasini's so much.

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I have owned lots of bike, but I think Tommasini's have been among the best riding and most beautiful of all.

Geez Frank, I was just stalking you via your post history. :D You've certainly had some nice frames

Cheers

No doubt. I was recalling how he was the only other Giordana owner I've run into - and then I see the list of other things.....

Frank - do you ride all these babies?

I use to own one of these in 52cm. It was a great bike. Unfortunately I outgrew it when I was 15 or 16. I probably weighed around 120lbs then so I had no problem with it. It was sitting in the shop I worked at for a few years until I bought it for very cheap. I had an Ultegra 600 group on mine.

I am currently trying to build up a Guerciotti GLX 9000 Aero Crono from the same year.

There are some frames that I buy knowing I will probably not build them up. I have bought and sold quite a few, and I know by now that the great majority will never be built up by me. My appreciation for bike frames is more an immense awe of the craftsmen that built the frames and the beauty that I see in the frames. While I have no qualms about them being built up and ridden lots of miles by me or someone else, I still see them as functional and rideable works of art.

Sometimes I see a frame for sale that I have never actually seen in person, and I end up buying it. I remember the old Colorado Cyclist catalogs with the stunning pictures of Bassos and Tommasinis. I remember the Bicycle Guide reviews of Marinoni's and IF when it first started. Once I got some of these bikes I thought them even prettier than the pictures, so when another one came along it was easy to want to buy it.

I am also a bargain buyer, and part of the fun for me is the looking for and finding frames that are what I think of as values. I know it was hard for me to pay full retail for the Habanero ti frame I bought a few months back, and it took me a couple of years to break down and do that. I see so many great frames at what I think are prices much less than their worth that I end up buying them.

Sometimes I get them and think they are so nice, especially the NOS ones, that I think about how pleased someone else would be who has been looking for just such a bike. I had a beautiful NOS 50th Anniversary Schwinn Paramount with the gold fork, but I knew that if I built it that I would someday sell it. I thought that someone who had an appreciation for such a bike would love to be the first to build and ride it. I could see them so proud to be out on a ride with his friends as the metallic candy apple red frame and gold fork sparkled in the sun. I knew even if I built it I would eventually sell it, so decided to let someone else be the first and they could tell me about it.

I have to sell most of the frames I buy eventually because I don't have room for them all, plus I have to sell stuff to buy other stuff ;-) It is a relatively inexpensive hobby and I enjoy both seeing the frames myself, building up a few and riding them, and getting to see them go to other folks who are so appreciative of nice frames.