[CR] Stellas, decals, columbus tubes, Italian bars??!?

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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:31:47 -0700
From: "Dale B. Phelps" <losgatos_dale@yahoo.com>
To: Joel Niemi <bberryacres@hotmail.com>
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR] Stellas, decals, columbus tubes, Italian bars??!?


Hi Joel, I'll be happy to snap photos of the decals for you. Question: is your bike reynolds or columbus tubes? My '77 has chromed campy dropouts, VERTCAL in the rear, columbus tubes, and a full gran-sport gruppo....an oddity to my (sparse) french familiarities. Regretfully, the bars and stem have been replaced by modern Nittos, if you (or anyone else) would happen to know if eye-talian bars and stem could/would have been mounted with this gran-sport build, and what brand(s) the bars and stem may have been, I'd love to hear back about it -on or off-list! 

Dale Phelps Montagna lunga Colorado USA

--- On Mon, 6/22/09, Joel Niemi <bberryacres@hotmail.com> wrote (off-list originally):

Dale, --snip-- I have a '72 Stella, whose decals have suffered over the years.  On my agenda of things to do is "repaint and redecal" someday. I've been e-mailing every eBay seller of Stellas, most have promised pictures of the decals ... but none have come through.  Maybe if I bought their bike ;) So, just wondering -- some day when you have the time, if you could be so kind as to photograph the various decals, with a ruler/tape measure visibile for scale, and send those pictures along to me, as a fellow classic rendesvous-er?