Mikael's Diamant is Belgian. Check out this similar one:
http://www.kapaza.be/
Apparently Diamant is still in business, they make aluminium/carbon bikes
too:
http://www.kapaza.be/
Freek Faro Rotterdam Netherlands
2008/11/7 Kai Hilbertz <khilbertz@googlemail.com>
> Nov. 07, 08
>
> Dear Mikael,
>
> it would be easier to identify the dropouts if you included a shot of
> the right dropout with hanger. I thought they were Campagnolo 1010B's,
> but mine look slightly different. The headset appears to be a normal stee
l
> Nuovo Record. Here are some dropout pics:
>
> http://www.classicrendezvous.com/
>
>
> http://images.google.de/
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>
> there might very well be other Diamants out there, but the only Diamant I
'm
> familiar with is one of the earliest German bicycle manufacturers, they
> started out in 1885. After the Second World War they became an East Germa
n
> VEB = state-owned enterprise, the \u201eVEB
> Fahrradwerke Elite Diamant". Apparently all the East German racers used
> Diamants. So if the frame in question was produced before the fall of the
> DDR in 1989, which it definitely looks like, than it's East German.
>
> In 1992 the VEB was privatized as the \u201eVEB Fahrradwerke Elite Diamant"
> under the auspices of the Swiss Villiger company. Later Trek bought
> Villiger, and Diamant along with it. More info in German:
> http://de.wikipedia.org/
> http://www.chemnitzer74.de/
> http://www.diamant-rad.de/
>
> Greets
>
> Kai Hilbertz
> Munich, Germany
>
>
>
>
> On 07.11.2008, at 16:35, mikael.gustafsson@saunalahti.fi wrote:
>
> Hello,
>>
>> First I would like to thank you all who helped me identify the mysteriou
s
>> B
>> ianchi I posted about some weeks ago. The bike was identified and has no
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>> f
>> ound a new owner. It was far too special for my riding needs, it felt li
ke
>> blasphemy commuting with it on our salted, rainy roads.
>>
>> I have come across a new bike now. A 80's Diamant road frame. As far
>>
>
> as I k
>> now it's Belgian. If anyone knows anything more about the tubeset, or th
e
>> b
>> ike in general, I would be really happy if you could tell me something a
bo
>> ut it.
>>
>> Here is all the details I am aware of this far:
>>
>> Frame: Diamant decals, Columbus frame decal (80´s?), Designer 86,
>>
>
> Micro F
>> C-40 decal.
>> Headset and fork: Campagnolo, Nuevo Record?
>> Dropouts: Campagnolo (1010?)
>> Bottom bracket: Cinelli
>>
>> Bought it from Ebay, apparently never used.
>>
>> Here are links to the original sellers images:
>>
>> http://img.photobucket.com/
>> http://img.photobucket.com/
>> http://img.photobucket.com/
>> http://img.photobucket.com/
>> http://img.photobucket.com/
>> http://img.photobucket.com/
>> http://img.photobucket.com/
>> http://img.photobucket.com/
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much, it's been interesting and educating reading all
>>
>
> the po
>> sts from CR.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mikael Gustafsson