Reynolds 531 Billato ?
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it looks brand new, great colour,really stylish. to get something like that re sprayed and re-stickered would cost at least 300 i would snap it up asap if you havent already . it would be really good if some one here could do a write up of the history of 'billato' i havent been to italy but when i do go hopefully i will pay homage to them
may be even on my lemond !
may be even on my lemond !
i agree it is unusual . but the lugs and drop outs i reckon are typical billato .
If one were to invent a forgery and go to the trouble of pantographing the seat stay, and do such a good paint and sticker job , you would have to be a right knob or a highly skilled,joker.
what i mean is a faker such as this could make an equally as good ,fake colnago and sell for at least double.
but of course some one could have simply purchased the reynolds sticker's , an ignorant previous owner perhaps,
the internal seat post bore 27.2 both the same. perhaps s a retro bike member has an identicle one or a member in Italy could ask billato and help .
If one were to invent a forgery and go to the trouble of pantographing the seat stay, and do such a good paint and sticker job , you would have to be a right knob or a highly skilled,joker.
what i mean is a faker such as this could make an equally as good ,fake colnago and sell for at least double.
but of course some one could have simply purchased the reynolds sticker's , an ignorant previous owner perhaps,
the internal seat post bore 27.2 both the same. perhaps s a retro bike member has an identicle one or a member in Italy could ask billato and help .
hi' i tried to google billato and could not get any joy about their factorys where abouts.
they do carbon and combinations of steel /carbon or used to.
someone wrote that they only started their own range in recent years, perhaps they trade under a different
name ? and that seems to add to the mystery of the topic of the 1985. road bike
It needs enlightening , perhaps there was a shortage of columbus sl at the time of the build or financial influences may have warranted a change ? an apprentice project or a prototype of some kind ?my thoughts turn to that fillet brazed gan team coloured frame on this forum not so long ago.
as for m self visiting billato, i doubt if i would get passed security.they are massive!
they do carbon and combinations of steel /carbon or used to.
someone wrote that they only started their own range in recent years, perhaps they trade under a different
name ? and that seems to add to the mystery of the topic of the 1985. road bike
It needs enlightening , perhaps there was a shortage of columbus sl at the time of the build or financial influences may have warranted a change ? an apprentice project or a prototype of some kind ?my thoughts turn to that fillet brazed gan team coloured frame on this forum not so long ago.
as for m self visiting billato, i doubt if i would get passed security.they are massive!
hernehill69
Old School Hero
At a quick look some of the bits look later to me.
But it looks like a nice bike and good value at that price.
But it looks like a nice bike and good value at that price.
kgt
Old School Hero
Here is a 1984 Billato. Columbus tubeset, campy dropouts, internal routing and different bb:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.ph ... the-stable
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.ph ... the-stable
daveplanetx
Dirt Disciple
let me ask Roberto directly and let you know, I am still in contact with him .
He is still in the bicycle business but his Italian production stopped a long time ago .
He made a lot of bikes back in the day and is very much a larger than life character .
He is still in the bicycle business but his Italian production stopped a long time ago .
He made a lot of bikes back in the day and is very much a larger than life character .
