Anyone else see the 'new' model for 2012, a Nuovo Classico? Lugged steel, flat fork crown, but I cant find any info on it. The De Rosa site has a picture, no description. I found a Taiwanese site with a few more pictures, but no info.

https://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/helioser-...ticle?mid=5074

Anyone know anything about it?

Interesting! I wonder what the tubing will be. There's nothing better than classic Italian geometry with newer steel and parts.

I like it but no, I have no knowledge of what the tubing might be, maybe that 2009 SL stuff?

terrible ! the stem, and the saddle, just kill it.

Pretty sure stems and saddles are personal choices.

Those can be changed out easily enough. Though you'll probably need a headset, too.

Looks about the same as any Trek at my LBS....

They have chrome lugged, steel road bikes by Trek at your LBS?

Lucky man/woman.

I never cared for Treks, though I hear they make good bikes.

Trek makes a lugged steel frame with chromed headlugs and De Rosa geometry? Which model would that be? Is it similar to their "Peterson" model featuring lugs with wing dings and triple chain stays with room for car rims?

OFG beat me to it.

...Except for Classic Italian geometry with vintage steel and vintage parts! ;-)

Squirrel! (From the movie "Up")

Says the guy with "753" in his title

I'll trade you all the SL/531 stuff I come across for MAX and EL OS.

Praise God/ Allah/ Yahweh/ whichever cult leader you choose, is that a one-inch threaded fork? Holy making sense, Batman!!!

... in 1983. (And they didn't chrome much of anything, as far as I remember (dropouts, maybe?).

I took the daring move of emailing DeRosa for information.

The new Nuovo Classico is a very attractive road bike, and I'll enjoy hearing more about it.

Choose Slack

BBM - I can't view photos at work, but if that's a "Bob" reference, you are my hero.

FNORD.

That's fropped up.

What are you? Some sort of smarty pants intellectual?

How dare you approach the Mighty Oz?

I should have known you were a brother in slack. My bicycles have their parking reserved for X Day.

Hee hee.... Thanks.

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"

The scary thing is they actually return emails to me.

What a concept.