I don't think from the photo that there is enough detail to rule out a typical Barra attachment to the dropout. The seatstay attachment screams aluminum to me, and the cable guide on the toptube looks just like what I see on both a Barra and Fontaynalloy.
I think that the only way to solve this is to get a better quality image - is Faliero laughing right now?
Mike Kone in Boulder CO
> >Well I'll disagree with Jan on this one - Lack of typical Barra
\r?\n> >features does not rule out Barra (just might make it less likely).
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> >Sitting in front of me is a Fontaynalloy frame - an aluminum frame
\r?\n> >sold through a British distrubutor (but identified in advertising as
\r?\n> >being of Continental origin) which has seatstays that look like the
\r?\n> >ones in the photo.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I looked at am aluminum Garrin, made by Barra or at least with
\r?\n> Barra's input, and it has yet another seatstay attachment. So I
\r?\n> wouldn't rule out that Barra did different seatstay attachments.
\r?\n> However, all of them have relatively "abrupt" transitions from stays
\r?\n> to dropout, unlike the "flowing" attachment on Robic's bike.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> >We simply don't know who made the frame
\r?\n>
\r?\n> What about a steel Barra? I've never seen one, but he made them...
\r?\n> And while brakes from other makers show up on various bikes, like a
\r?\n> certain Daudon with Herse brakes, I never have seen Barra brakes on a
\r?\n> bike from another maker...
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