Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:37:12 -0400 From: "Pete Geurds" <raleighpro@dejazzd.com> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Subject: Re: [CR]Wilier Triestina
From: "Jay Van De Velde" <jaysportif@yahoo.com>
Subject: [CR]Wilier Triestina
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>A while back there was some discussion regarding the copper finish on an '80s Wilier Triestina bike.
>I can state with reasonable certainty that the finish is cromovellato, a copper colored lacquer painted over chrome.
> http://www.theracingbicycle.com/
To which Pete added: That's nice! I wonder if that's the look Raleigh was trying for with the Internationals?
http://bulgier.net/
I have a Super Course in that same copper color as the International. Though it doesn't seem to be in the literature as being available in copper.
Pete Geurds Douglassville, Pa
Pete: The Super Course was available in copper (and red) in about 1979-1980. Is yours perhaps one of those, or earlier? Some of them had forged dropouts IIRC. Very nice bikes for the money at the time. If anyone has a 23.5" one in this configuration in mint condition or better, please consider selling it to me. I'd love to have one for sentimental reasons. Earlier Super Courses were usually coffee in color, among other color choices (my first "good" bike was a 1973 coffee Super Course, bought for $165 in lawn-mowing money. Took me quite a while to save up that much dough in 1973...). Greg Parker Ann Arbor, Michigan