Hello,
Can anyone tell me a little bit about the age and history of a second hand bike that I've just purchased today?
I don't know much about that brand so, this is what I know:

The seat is a Arius gran carrera special (dark beige or light brown) leather.
The gear sytem is a Simplex
The tyres are : vittoria georgia 22
The wheels : Nisi HR22
The steering item (in french whe say "guidon") have on one side "cyclo man" and "mod Rover"on the other.
the "plateau" is a 52.
The speeds : 12.
The brakes system : corso.
the two forks are chromed.
On the rear fork, left side : battaglin giro.

I purchased it on eBay for 28€ or +- $35, so I don't mind if it's an old thing. however, the tyres and brakes look new and original, and, in general, it looks like that bike spend a lot of years in a attick, it's very clean, and seems that it mades less than 100 miles in is live.
I was only looking for a big framed (this one is a 62 cm, I am 190cm) bike to ride some times to work.

I also saw another battaglin giro on this forum but it have some differencies.
There are no "columbus" marks one mine.
Excuse my orthograph and have a nice day,
Jean-Louis (bibelot) from Brussels, Belgium

If I am not mistaken the Battaglin bikes were made by Pinarello. I believe that they were imported into the US in the mid 80's by a company in Florida (Italia Velo Sport) and I looked at buying one at that time. Columbus SL tubing, I think. You got a great deal.

Thanks a lot for you're very interesting respons. Aldo, I don't see any columbus signs on the tubes, could it be from that firm?

J-L

It might be an old thing, but it's a very nice old thing!! Absolute bargain at $35.

You might get a bit more info from these links.

https://bulgier.net/pics/bike/Catalogs/battaglin/

https://www.bikeforums.net/archive/index.php/t-363913.html/

Those pics are very interesting and it will help me well for the identification of the model of my bike. I was wandering if the mix of the different brand, was a pattern for the place where it was originaly sold. It is still possible that the previous owner made some change in the choice of accessoires, but I dout it. I don't even see any key or screwdriver marks anywhere. There was only traces of very old dry oil, not even grease.

Thanks again for your help,

Jean-Louis (bibelot)