The first one is exactly the bike I have set up as a fixed gear. The drop outs are cheap and thin and some of the braize work, especially at the head tube, is shoddy. However, it rides great and the head badge is the nicest in my garage. I'm surprised at the price, to say the least.
--Keven Ruf
Seattle, WA
>>> "C. Andrews" <chasds@mindspring.com> 4/25/2004 7:04:21 PM >>>
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This is a very odd bike. If it's a San Remo, it appears to have a-typical rear-drop-outs..they don't look like Campagnolo-stamped forged, but, rather some anonymous stamped-out drop-out, typical of lower-line bikes.
My sense, from looking at Falcon catalogs from the 70s, is that the San Remo for Falcon may be been like the *La Garibaldina* for Gloria: many different flavors of this model were made...but not all were of equal interest or quality.
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This one is extremely cool, imho, even if it is a lower-line bike, and I'm very glad it's too big for me, or I might be really stupid and bid on it. Whoever gets this one will be getting a cool piece.
My San Remo, recently restored--very nicely--by CyclArt, is Falcon baby-blue, with chromed head-lugs and stay ends, fully chromed fork, and Cinelli sloping crown. Early 70s or late-60s, with very interesting chain-stays that appear to have been narrowed in the area of the cranks, to obviate creasing them. I think it's probably the top frame in the line..forged Campagnolo drops, clean workmanship throughout.
A very fine original San Remo went recently on ebay to Eric Elman..(I think, if I remember correctly..someone here on the list, anyway)..that one was the real deal.
Charles "Sanremophile, or not all San Remos are created equal" Andrews Socal.
"...logic is man's most destructive illusion. All thinking is done with the glands, and the logic part gets stuck on afterward to neaten things up."
-- John D. MacDonald