Its been a long time since an 'off the peg' steel frame really caught my fancy, but this one does the trick. Carrera always had something for me, I don't know why, was it the fact that they seemed to originate from a jeans brand? At the time I never really knew what Stephen Roche was riding on! So, just mindlessly surfing and googling with 'telaio carrera' I found their current steel, lugged, offering, the Lima:
http://www.carrera-podium.it/
I think it looks great, very nice lugwork, steel front fork, and with the modern stuff on it, not half bad looking. Gorgeous in fact. But thats just me of course.
The English text is not all that informative. What tubing is used? What does 'The assembly of the tubing is through grafts.' mean? How much does it cost? Where can I get one???
Freek 'dreaming ... sigh ...' Faro
Rotterdam Netherlands