[CR]"NOS" Allegro, something to yodel about or...

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From: "JB Froke" <jbfroke@msn.com>
To: "classicrendezvous" <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 12:08:21 -0800
Seal-Send-Time: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 12:08:21 -0800
Subject: [CR]"NOS" Allegro, something to yodel about or...

True, the 'NOS' Allegro is a beaut; but is anyone else suspicious of the paintjob? The smoke seems plausible, and if NOS; wonderful, but the blue lug-edging is more than a bit off: color is just too much coded to the logo and then not very well executed. Not at all to Swiss standards of the day. By contrast and for gorgeous representation, see the recent discussion and pictures of a Swiss Condor on this site; or variously on Stefan's.speedcycles!! Impressed, but leary of claim. If it weren't only the bike that had been smoking, and one could really get an NOS Allegro for a fourth the price of an NOS Masi, I'd be yodeling all the way to the Alps.

JB Froke
Pebble Beach, CA