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07-20-09 | 10:23 PM
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im sorry i started this thread. picchio gave me the infor. i wanted. i ride a 52-57cm frame quite well thank you. adjustments are made in saddle and stem for comfort. honestly, i buy these to ride and collect. i like to buy a bike by criteria as in=looks,rideability=name=era=collectibillity=resale. lets face it, most people go into a bike shop, throw out a grand for a new bike, ride it a year, sell it for four hundred bucks. thats one of the reasons i love vintage bikes=you never lose money(i know, i know, a few of you are laughing at me with my cinelli disaster, but, believe me, that is the exception not the usual for me.
07-20-09 | 11:02 PM
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Someone mentioned that they thought this was a low-end model due the Gran Sport components. However, if this bike is really early 60s that would not be the case. In fact, wouldn't the Gran Sport stuff in addition to the Magistroni headset and cranks be an indicator of a fairly high end bike? Isnt this the kind of stuff that would have come on an early 1960s Cinelli too?
07-21-09 | 04:46 AM
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07-21-09 | 07:47 AM
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Sorry maybe I just blended some posts together in my head on accident.
But, yeah those schrader valves definately seem to suggest a US import bike.
It seems like a case where Italians can really make a mid-to-low level bike LOOK really like a high end bike.
But, yeah those schrader valves definately seem to suggest a US import bike.
It seems like a case where Italians can really make a mid-to-low level bike LOOK really like a high end bike.
07-21-09 | 08:01 AM
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That's probably what you remembered
My sense is that that's an entry level bike - I believe quite a few similar ones came into the US. Seems to me that general lug type was pretty common on run-of-the mill bikes of a certain age. I doubt it has much real collectability, but might be fun to own and ride for the right price.
(IMO, $600 is too much.)
(IMO, $600 is too much.)
07-21-09 | 08:04 AM
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And yes the frame does look low end.It reminds me of the Torpados and Galattis I see all the time, even a Gloria I have had.
07-21-09 | 09:14 AM
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my sense is that that's an entry level bike - i believe quite a few similar ones came into the us. Seems to me that general lug type was pretty common on run-of-the mill bikes of a certain age. I doubt it has much real collectability, but might be fun to own and ride for the right price.
(imo, $600 is too much.)
(imo, $600 is too much.)
(the non-quick-release hubs tell you a lot about the quality of that bike.)
(I know, I know: it was the "due to the gran sport components" that hadn't come up before, but still....)+1. The discussion of grammar, mispunctuation, semiotics, and semantics was a hoot. As for bikes, well, there's so many threads about them already....
