I briefly owned a mid 80's Olmo built with Aelle. Chromed fork crown, dropouts, chianstay and the usual panto. It had a racing geometry with Galli parts. Looked high end, but clearly made to be affordable. Nothing wrong with the ride either.
Kim Carney Davis, CA USA
> My daughter's early 80's junior 24" wheel Romic was built by Ray Gasorowski
> of Aelle, and it rode quite nicely, at least as near as I could tell, as it
> was of course much too small for me.
>
> I've seen quite a lot of very nice Italian frames built of Aelle, from a
> variety of builders, many of them detailed and finished very nearly as
> nicely as SL frames from the same builders, but at a significantly lower
> price. These bikes seem to have been very much racing frames (as are most
> Italian frames other than city bikes), probably intended for amateur
> racers. I'm not a great fan of everything connected with Italian bikes,
> but I have always admired the level of detail and finish Italian builders
> were willing to apply to an affordable frame made from a less prestigeous
> tubeset. One only rarely sees this in frames from other countries. In
> the US most customers who had an appreciation of the detailing and finish
> would want a frame built of a "top" tubeset.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry Moos
> Big Spring, TX, USA
>
>
>
> --- On Fri, 1/16/09, KvnMuadib@aol.com <KvnMuadib@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > From: KvnMuadib@aol.com <KvnMuadib@aol.com>
> > Subject: [CR] colombus aelle tubing
> > To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> > Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 3:03 PM
> > hi all. anyone have any experience factor (owned or rode
> > frames built with)
> > with aelle straight gauge tubing. i have seen bottecchias
> > ,somecs, pinarellos,
> > maybe even colnago frames probably others that escape me
> > at the moment,
> > built w/aelle tubing.i notice that the tubeset is about
> > 400 gms heavier than sl
> > though not substantially different from sp,weightwise. i am
> > wondering if it
> > just a less expensive tubeset to produce an economy frame
> > for
> > "amateur"cyclists or are there distinct
> > differences in say durability handling etc. etc.
> > .just a small diversion from the rhythmic beat of "bar
> > tape,bar tape,bar tape"
> > kevin ruberg howell nj usa
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