[CR]Galmozzi track bike

(Example: Racing:Beryl Burton)

From: "The Maaslands" <TheMaaslands@comcast.net>
To: "CR" <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 00:27:11 -0400
Subject: [CR]Galmozzi track bike

Jim wrote:

"Last week at a garage sale I found an unusal bike. It was set up as a ten speed but had horizontal track read dropouts! It was painted blue and had a Campy steel seatpost (26.8) with a Brooks B17 saddle and also had a Campy headset. All the other parts were mostly cheap Japanese parts. The bike has a seat collar clamp, which was missing and Chinelli looking rear stays. The bike it looks like the most is the 60's Galmozzi

on the CR Italian page. Under the blue paint it looks to be completely chromed. I read the archives and not many of the list members have Galmozzi's or some wished they had kept one that they had! The head tube has two holes where the headbadge was, also someone wrote that the Galmozzi had a saddle cutout in the lugs? The lugs look to me to be a cross between Prugnant and Bocoma, with a cut horizontally across the fronts, like the one in the CR pictures but without the holes in the center. The front dropouts have two sets of eyelets. The seat tube extends about 1/2 inch past the lug where the collar would have been."

I think I can say with a great degree of certainty that the bike is not a Galmozzi. There doesn't appear to really be anything that would directly link it ot Galmozzi. The stays are described as Cinelli-like which I would take to mean like a Cinelli SC. NO Galmozzi that I have ever seen has the Cinelli seatstay treatment. The headlugs are described as having a horizontal cut but not the central hole like all the older Galmozzi bikes that I have seen. Does the headtube have a Galmozzi engraving such as seen in this picture?: http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/maasland/1975-Galmozzi/Galmozzi_head_ tube_marking.jpg.html

Perhaps you can post a photo somewhere to look at, it would then be far easier to note possible tell-tale elements of the bike.

Steven Maasland Moorestown, NJ USA

PS: I can confirm that Galmozzi bikes are indeed great riding bikes and I believe there are actually quite a few in the hands of very contented CR listmembers. I personally know of 6 CR listmember owners, which is comparatively many when you consider how few bikes he built and that I don't believe there was ever a concerted effort to distribute them in the US by an importer.