Sew ups were not enough. I sold bikes Italian bikes for $129 with sewups (Tanzini).
Campy dropouts were not enough either or even "good" tubing". Anything went at the height of the bike boom.
Stuff that might have been good at one time (Gnutti hubs, Ballila brakes) seemed to become junk during this time.
Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ
>
> In a message dated 12/14/03 5:42:34 PM, Bikerdaver@aol.com writes:
>
> >Steven-
> >have him check to see if it has sew-ups or not. All top end Italian
steeds
> >of
> >that era came with them. Cheers,
>
> Cheap ones too. I bought a cheap Frejus in 1970 with Fiamme blue label
sewups.
> Phil Brown
> No snappy signoff in San Rafael, Calif.