<<Check out this ebay De Rosa, which appears to have those self-same "pre-crimped" stay ends referenced by Dale:
Maybe De Rosa wasn't always more refined? >>
Ouch! You are Oh-So correct! Drat! ? :)
Dale Brown Greensboro, North Carolina USA
-----Original Message----- From: edvintage63@aol.com To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 8:47 pm Subject: [CR]De Rosa vs. Merckx (Ed Granger)
Dale wrote:?
"In close scrutiny, there are differences, the most significant is that of?
the joinery at the dropouts... DeRosa almost always had the extra refined?
"points" filed in the dropouts where they meet the stays. Later, Eddie?
also embraced the Columbus pre-crimped stay ends rather than do any filing?
at all at those junctures. Those and other nuances make me think that, in?
balance, DeRosa was always slightly more refined... '?
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Check out this ebay De Rosa, which appears to have those self-same "pre-crimped" stay ends referenced by Dale:? ?
Maybe De Rosa wasn't always more refined??? ?
Ed Granger?
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA? ?
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