Nice looking bike!
But this reminded of a couple of additional comments about these frames:
1) The nicer ones were built with the Campagnolo forged dropouts, front and rear.
2) But even the "lesser" version looked quite nice and was
lighter than similar bikes made by Peugeot, raleigh, etc.
Ciao,
Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia (USA)
> Eric Phillips wrote:
>
> > I recently acquired an Atala Grand Prix that's in rough
> shape. The
> > frame is decent (but lots of scratches), I'm not sure about
> the
> > components as they all seem a bit rough (broken cables,
> nasty brake
> > hoods, etc.). My question: could this be a decent fixed
> gear
> > conversion?
>
> Sure! That's what I did with mine:
>
> http://www.os2.dhs.org/
>
> --
>
> -John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
> Appleton WI USA
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