Frankenorange
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Hello
Edit to add: This is a wanted advert, of sorts, but maybe it is better in the general section. Mods - please move if you think it is better placed there.
This is the longest of shots.....but i would like to try and get my old TT bike back in my hands, or at least try and find out what happened to it. It was an Ottadini lo-pro frame built in '87-88 with a curvy Reynolds/Colombus mix of tubing, with a 24" front wheel. Not that many were built so maybe, just maybe, there is a chance of finding it. I built it, out of my apprentice wages, with was the usual, back then, with L-shaped cranks, Kronos brakes, 80mm front hub, Assos rims, Mavic bull horns etc. Frame was a kind of purple pink and sized for a 6' rider. It was fun to ride and I will try and get a pic up, soon.
I sold it in '92 to a man called Bob Flateau who worked at a now defunct company , called Badalex, in Weybridge, Surrey. He was seriously into cycling and would commute on this lo-pro while i went and got drunk around the world, as a backpacker, with some of his money. I did find someone of the same surname, in Charlotteville CC, but it was not the same family.
Anyhow....if you know of this frame/bike please do get in touch. Like i say; if it was more mainstream i wouldn't bother but there weren't that many Ottadini frames, and lo-pro frames were few and far between so might be easier to find, if it still exists.
Best regards
Edit to add: This is a wanted advert, of sorts, but maybe it is better in the general section. Mods - please move if you think it is better placed there.
This is the longest of shots.....but i would like to try and get my old TT bike back in my hands, or at least try and find out what happened to it. It was an Ottadini lo-pro frame built in '87-88 with a curvy Reynolds/Colombus mix of tubing, with a 24" front wheel. Not that many were built so maybe, just maybe, there is a chance of finding it. I built it, out of my apprentice wages, with was the usual, back then, with L-shaped cranks, Kronos brakes, 80mm front hub, Assos rims, Mavic bull horns etc. Frame was a kind of purple pink and sized for a 6' rider. It was fun to ride and I will try and get a pic up, soon.
I sold it in '92 to a man called Bob Flateau who worked at a now defunct company , called Badalex, in Weybridge, Surrey. He was seriously into cycling and would commute on this lo-pro while i went and got drunk around the world, as a backpacker, with some of his money. I did find someone of the same surname, in Charlotteville CC, but it was not the same family.
Anyhow....if you know of this frame/bike please do get in touch. Like i say; if it was more mainstream i wouldn't bother but there weren't that many Ottadini frames, and lo-pro frames were few and far between so might be easier to find, if it still exists.
Best regards
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