Beautiful frame. And 800 Euros is especially reasonable in USD thanks to the irresponsible Greeks dragging the Euro currency down right now.
Can you imagine what a venerable known North American builder would charge for a new frame/fork of similar quality with that amount of nice chrome? Multiples. Hell they'd probably charge you close to that for the chrome alone! Shame it's so small.
Kurt Sperry Bellingham, Washington USA
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Norris Lockley
<nlockley73@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Offered for sale currently on French Ebay, with about 15 hours to run, is a
> brand new Tommasini Pista Prestige.
>
> This 51 cms frame is apparently one of a very LIMITED EDITION that the
> Italian maestro has recently built..with this particular one, according to
> the seller, being made for one of Ideo's friends.
>
> Made of lugged construction using ColumbusNeuron tubing, it is finished in
> gloss black with acres of chrome-plating. The chromed head-lugs are very
> fetching.
>
> It is priced at 800 euros, with no bids on it to date..but there again the
> French traditionally do not like to pay much for a track frame, a phenomenon
> that explains why so many French-made track frames are very strictly
> utilitarian and often built from plain gauge tubing.
>
> *ITEM NO: 230443436019*
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> *Norris Lockley*
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