[CR]Re: FS: 54cm DeRosa Super Prestige frame and fork

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From: "Retrofan531" <Retrofan531@allegiance.tv>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 15:00:44 -0500
Subject: [CR]Re: FS: 54cm DeRosa Super Prestige frame and fork

Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 14:10:26 -0400
> From: "The Maaslands" <TheMaaslands@comcast.net>
> To: "CR" <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Subject: [CR]FS: 54cm DeRosa Super Prestige frame and fork

Frank wrote: "The original owner was a DeRosa bike dealer, and he had this frame custom painted just for him. The bike is a gloss black with pink panels on the downtube and seattube with white DeRosa lettering outlined in black inside the panels. He had this painted to match the colors of the winning jersey in the Giro d'Italia. What an opportunity to own a truly unique frameset!" ===================== Steven Maasland replied for some reason: As many of you know, I worked with the biggest German DeRosa distributor in the 80's and 90's. There was no such thing as a "standard" frame. Every frame was in some way differetn from every other. Furthermore, within reason, any frame could be painted the way you wanted. The difficulty was in getting exactly what you requested as they weren't always the most responsive. They would also look after special chroming requests where possible. So what makes this truly unique?

Steven Maasland Moorestown, NJ =================== Frank replies to Steven:

I have never seen a DeRosa Super Prestige with this paint scheme in the many years I have been buying, selling, and admiring bikes. Therefore, it appeared to me to be a truly unique DeRosa frameset based on having never seen the same paint scheme on one of his framesets.

Perhaps, since you inferred in your seemingly condescending remark that this was not a unique frameset, you could direct me to several (or at least one) picture(s) of this very same paint scheme on a DeRosa Super Prestige so that I can be enlightened as to the non-uniqueness of this item.

Frank Phillips
McAlester, Ok