Dale asked:
>Remove the hyperbole and what is left?
Not much; I was going to mention the 3V <http://www.creative-web-sites.com/milano_sport/milano3V.htm>, but I checked Hilary's Design Classic article in the September 2002 Cycling Plus. He ends by saying:
"The 3V Volumetrica in its classic form I think ended production in the mid 1990s - new tig welded steel bikes also called by the same name and now aluminium bikes also bearing the same name have replaced the original ground breaking frame design."
Roy "pale shadow of it's former glory" Drinkwater Lititz, "now in the Arctic circle" PA