I have a pair of 70’s vintage 27 inch Fiamme yellow label rims (oval flying horse).
I had planed on building these up but have since sold the Crescent frame where they originated.
I’m wondering if these are worth selling or do they fall into the “nothing special” category. I guess I could build them up for winter riding….your thoughts would be appreciated.

Pure crap. Please send them to me.

You can always sell them on eBay.

I have no problem selling them, but I don't want to hassle with eBay if I'm only going to get $5 bucks out of it.

I've never even ridden tubulars, but I do have some yellow label Fiamme rims that were on a '72 Raleigh International when I got it. I started a thread on the bike, got some great info, and a couple of responders replied that Fiamme tubular rims are excellent (including Sheldon Brown, I believe he said he considered Fiamme's "the best"). I also found out the yellow label Fiamme's are racing rims, the lightest rims available in the early '70's. So yeah, I'd say they're special; whether they're worth much monetarily, though, I have no idea-

just be aware that anything over 160 lbs for the rider might be stressing the yellow
label rims (and that might be high). I'd opt for the Red labels, just as nice but
a bit sturdier.

Marty

Hmm, my bike has those same rims and I weigh 200 lbs.

So are my wheels going to all of the sudden crumble underneath me in the middle of a ride or what?

This is only a guess, you may get more or less, but those rims are worth an easy $50 on ebay and if you get lucky, and depending on condition, you could get up to $100.

That said, they are still pure crap and you should send them to me.

My rims are not tubular, but clinchers. They are drilled for schraders. My understanding is that there wasn't a light weight version of the clincher. Maybe I'm up in the night.

My Bottecchia came with those back in the day. I suspect you can get a decent price for them on eBay. I tried to pick up a couple of sets of the same rims in 700C and they went for over $200! Then I found them NOS at VeloOrange for $75. Being 27's instead of 700C's you probably won't get as much.

BTW - I'm 195-200-lbs and just dented the red label on my rear wheel. Not at all happy with the tubulars in general. They just don't seem to be very robust. Hence why I picked up the yellow label clinchers.

Well, I just bought some new tires today to replace the 20+ years old Vredesteins and Holy Crap is it impossible to change the tires on these wheels or what?

I actually had to get wires cutters and just cut the beads on the old tires to get them off. (This was after snapping a tire lever in half.)

Now I'm having the same problem with the new ones. I cannot get the last section of the bead onto the tire. There's almost an inch of space left for me to try to pull over the rim and it simply will not go. Anybody have any tricks? I've watched about three different videos online and all their tires just slip onto the wheel no problem. I'm afraid I'm going to have to pay the LBS to put my stupid tires on.

Thanks everyone. I think I'll post them in The Market Place forum and see if anyone is interested. I've moved away from 27's on my fixed and only have them on my foul weather bike. 50lb Femco rims no less.