Thanks, Angel & Dale, for the info.
I'm not quite completely sold on this Romeo... Its a terrific ride and very light (SLX?) but it's just a mite large for me and then there's that bent seat stay.
The graphics aren't great but the paint job is good. Its almost the identical color as some extra Blumels fenders I have. only there's too little clearance for them. Nice tight clean well finished metal work overall...ah, well.
I picked up a 23"c-t purple mid 80's Guerciotti at the same sale but its too small for me. Mixed components: Modolo brakes/Levs, Specialized crank, Cinelli cars and stem, Campy r/d & d/t shifters. G40 rims with airholding tires. Anyone have a 24-25 inch(c-t) something they may want to trade?
If not this will likely go to Sarah's shop or to the Ebay block.
Calvert Guthrie Kansas City
In a message dated 5/5/2003 8:19:31 AM Central Standard Time, OROBOYZ@aol.com
writes:
> Subj: Re: [CR]1979 Romeo road bike
> Date: 5/5/2003 8:19:31 AM Central Standard Time
> From: <A HREF="mailto:OROBOYZ@aol.com">OROBOYZ@aol.com</A>
> To: <A HREF="mailto:wa2vuy@mindspring.com">wa2vuy@mindspring.com</A>, <A HREF="mailto:CYCLETRUCK@aol.com">CYCLETRUCK@aol.com</A>, <A HREF="mailto:classicrendezvous@bikelist.org">
> classicrendezvous@bikelist.org</A>
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>
> In a message dated 5/5/2003 7:46:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> wa2vuy@mindspring.com writes:
>
> <<I was in the ROMEO bike shop in Rome in May of last year. I think its
> heyday
> must have come and gone as they had little exotica. They still were selling
> ROMEO branded bikes (now aluminum), jerseys. It appears their domain name
> has expired; perhaps they have changed it. The store was fairly sparse,
> perhaps they are no longer in business? This was their website:
> http://www.romeobicycleshop.com/
> importing their aluminum frames. In Italy it seems every store carries
> bikes
> with their own name (made by who knows?). >>
>
> Thanks, Angel, for that report..
> There has been a fellow in Wilmington, North Carolina importing those bikes
>
> for perhaps a year &a half.. . One of the regional teams has been riding
> them for a year or so..
>
> Their advertising uses a few references to their cycling heritage.. Looks
> like they were a big deal at one time... Now the bikes look like they could
>
> be China-made with Italian decals. Maybe not, but who could can tell?
> Totally
> anonymous under the paint.
>
> I was courted rather heavily by the importer to sell them in CDO and the
> guy
> seems like a nice fellow, but they were Pinarello priced (high) and, to my
> eye, particularly boring and unattractive paint and decal wise. On the
> other
> hand, someone else might think they were way cool.
>
> The only vintage content in this post is maybe to say that little vintage
> content remains in Romeo bikes....
>
> Dale Brown
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