I have trouble imagining a GC or an earlier Olmo factory-specced with anything other than tubulars. But many bikes were not factory built! I have a 1985 (sorry, OT! but only based on time) Mondonico that was shop-built in Boulder with full Shimano 600 and Mavic clinchers, and my '80 Masi seems to have been shop-built (Kirkbride's shop, no less!) with Wolber tubulars. So what is OEM reality? Lightweight 700C clinchers were coming in, but just beginning to gain respect as serious racing tires. I'd expect the conservative high-end Italian companies and their descendants were the late adopters.
I would search for tubular history instead (but I like tubulars better!).
Ken Freeman, Ann Arbor, MI USA
> Listers: Lacking complete information, I have been bumping along trying to
\r?\n> gain a small pile of vintage clincher rims for those projects that have been
\r?\n> piling up in the basement.
\r?\n> I wont compromise on the good spokes, but everytime I spot a rim or two, I
\r?\n> have to ask if that rim would be proper on say a 1970s Olmo bicycle, or an
\r?\n> early 80s Gran Criterium. A list that I could paste on a 3 x 5 card and put in
\r?\n> a wallet or tape to my computer screen would be the ticket.
\r?\n> Since I lack some of the old sales catalogs of the era, is there anyone
\r?\n> that could give a period of manufacture and the rims that filled that era. As
\r?\n> usual I humbly await the outpouring of knowledge from the crowd.
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\r?\n> Bruce Thomson Spokane WA 99204
\r?\n> (509) 747 4314
\r?\n> Masi3v4me@yahoo.com
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