hi, a sorry name, firenze; you'd thing all the florentines of tuscany would rise in mass protest. being from wisconsin, and of an age when firenzes were everywhere when i worked my way through college in bike shops, i can second (with mighty enthusiasm) david's comments. we generally told people that they simply weren't worth the cost of even a new tube and tire when they rolled in to the shop. and rolled was generally not the operative word with these, shall i laughingly say, bicycles. firenzes belong in the trash... put it back where it belongs! mark
-----Original Message----- From: Dave Feldman [mailto:feldmanbike@home.com] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 8:14 PM To: walter skrzypek; classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [Classicrendezvous] Firenze bicycle?
This is truly a garbage bike. These were the lowest end of Taiwan's early
80's manufacturing. A home furnishings store in my area was giving them
away with furniture and electronics purchases around 1982-83. You could
have a free Firenze or a $25.00 discount. People who knew anything at all
about bikes were taking the discount! Many of these had frame and fork
failures with no abuse, genuine "JRA's."
David Feldman
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>From: "walter skrzypek" <wspokes1@hotmail.com>
>To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: [Classicrendezvous] Firenze bicycle?
>Date: Fri, Oct 27, 2000, 2:19 PM
>
>Question: What quality are Firenze framesets? I rescued a Firenze GL5000
>from the dumpster. It has low quality lugged tubing, one set of bottle
>bosses. Appears to be a 80s style set up. It has a little 5000 etched in
the
>top of the seatstay near the seat lug. Decals say 1010 tubing, and also
>"made for Firenze of Wisconsin" It is is remarkably good shape. No dents or
>dings and rather clean. Anyone heard of this...anyone, anyone,
>
>
>Walt Skrzypek
>Falls Creek, Pa
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