>-- Ron Titensor <roleti40@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I'm looking for information and/or photos of a late '70's ('78) Liotto.
> The Liotto, I am told, was hand built to order by Gino (or Tony) Liotto
> in Vicenza, Italy. Thanks.
About 30(?) or so years ago there was a couple in the Lake Country Cyclists who had commissioned 3 Liottos while they had been in Italy. Two "Touring" bikes which turned out to be short coupled SL racing frames with eyelets for racks. And a crazy light tandem that was very short, yet overly flexible. These were slender people but it was too squirmey for them. The bikes had been quite inexpensive, but that may have been in part due to the exchange rate at the time.
They said that Liotto had been and old friend of Tullio's and that his shop was walking distance from the Campi factory. They said one reason he was selling at low cost was Tullio let him sort through the cosmetically flawed parts which he took and polished out the blemishes. IIRC the cranks and brakes didn't look like they had been anodized.
Mark Stonich;
BikeSmith Design & Fabrication
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