If there is one frame detail that can always be trusted to identify an early Legnano, regardless of the condition, it is the unique design of the seat lug and the corresponding placement of the seat binder bolt below the top tube and in front of the seat tube (image at top of page). And […]
Updated July 20, 2020. If you were born after 1970 you may think that Campagnolo is the final word when it comes to Italian bicycle components. However nothing is further from the truth as Italy had many great component manufacturers long before Tulio Campagnolo filed his first patent for the quick-release hub mechanism in 1933. […]
This pristine 1967 Roma Olimpiade arrived this week from its original owner Peter Rossbaum, who was only 14 years old when he walked through the doors of Bloor Cycle in Toronto and purchased this Italian thoroughbred. It’s a rare find to come across a 50 year old Roma in this condition and beyond the financial […]
I am also a fan of motorsport, particularly the racing cars of the 60’s and 70’s. The Ferrari 330P4 and the Ferrari 250GTO always come to mind with a passion and I never tire of looking at these masterpieces. I have heard tell of well-healed collectors bringing former Ferrari employees out of retirement to build replacement parts […]
With so many projects on the go, I thought I would leave the ’59 Roma in the shipping box until the winter. Well for those of you that are in to this ‘old bike’ thing, you say this to yourself wishfully knowing that the bike will be out of the box and on the stand […]
Inspired by the world famous L’Eroica event which graces the rural strade bianche (white roads) of Tuscany, La Bicicletta in Toronto announced the Giro Epoca d’Oro retro cycling event this spring. The format: only pre’87 steel frame bikes with down tube shifters and no modern ‘clip’ pedals. The ‘buzz’ was great however a few days before the […]
The frame is now with Noah Rosen at Velocolour so the only fun left for me at this point in time is to begin cleaning, checking and repairing (where necessary) all of the bits and pieces that make up this ’58 Roma. It will be an enjoyably slow process and with no particular sequence to the cleanup other […]
I had better catch up on the ’58 Roma project as the frame is now ‘in the queue’ as they say at Velocolour waiting to be brought back to life by Noah Rosen. Given the age and value of this Roma Olimpiade it was a bit of a tough decision to have it repainted however the finish was very, very poor. […]
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