i have the article. it was from jan 74. the entire bicycle was $650. i will mail xeroxs of this 3-pager to anyone who sends me a self-addressed stamped envelope, legal size. e-RICHIE Richard Sachs Cycles No.9, North Main Street Chester, CT 06412 USA http://www.richardsachs.com Tel. 860.526.2059
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:33:44 -0500 velocio@meta-net.net writes:
> If someone has a run of Bicycling! magazines from c. 1974-75 they can
> go
> through, there was a road test article on them during that time
> period.
>
> The article described what I remember as a pearl white bike. It had
> heart-
> shaped cutouts in the lugs, filled in with red. The bike,
> completely equipped
> with Vicenza's finest, sold for $750 at the time. I remember this
> stuff
> because of a family meeting in which my mother announced she was
> returning to
> graduate school; there would be sacrifices, and what would I like as
> a reward
> after it was all done? My answer, of course, was "a DeRosa."
>
> Never got it, and now I suppose that's just as well ... I seem to
> have a lot of
> accidents on Italian bikes ... ;>)
>
> Russ Fitzgerald
> Greenwood SC
> velocio@meta-net.net