Torellisteel ❤️
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Canuk
Old School Grand Master
Prithee, I knoweth not.
Because it is!
I have seen it before. I wish they would just say who builds the frames since I already know they are contract built. So far "Torelli" has yet to tell me who previously built and presently builds their steel frames.
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ChromeChainstay
Senior Retro Guru
that sucks
juvela
Old School Hero
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Hath wondered the same meself. We had a big batch of them imported to California where I abide ~1979. There was a period of some months following when it seemed like "everybody & his brother" was selling them and then they were gone. No new ones have ever returned in the interim. They appeared very much like contract jobbies.
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Hath wondered the same meself. We had a big batch of them imported to California where I abide ~1979. There was a period of some months following when it seemed like "everybody & his brother" was selling them and then they were gone. No new ones have ever returned in the interim. They appeared very much like contract jobbies.
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Similar to Tommaso. Not sure if the name was licensed (cycling garment company in Italy) or made up. Thomas Eason of TDSI was the importer so his name may been the impetus for the Tommaso name, and frames were painted (like Torelli) in the US. The Tommaso alloy frames were all ALAN models (with Tommaso and Guerciotti livery); but unknown where their steel frames were made. I believe their steel Guerciotti and Woodrup frames were made by the specified marque factories and/or their contracted builders. As a note; I have 2 of the Guerciotti "ALAN" bikes; they are quite nice and very lightweight, but one is fitted with Mavic G.E.L 280 rims so not for heavyweights (and I am not getting any lighter myself).
Hope everyone is well. I have been "offline" for a bit.
juvela
Old School Hero
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a next door neighbour took in one of the batch mentioned above as a used machine in the early eighties
he asked me about it and it put me in a spot of not wanting to denigrate it and yet be as truthful as possible so answered -
"think of it as a coat hanger for a road ensemble."
btw - all examples seen "in the field" from that batch were black. there certainly may have been other finishes but that is all ever saw...
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a next door neighbour took in one of the batch mentioned above as a used machine in the early eighties
he asked me about it and it put me in a spot of not wanting to denigrate it and yet be as truthful as possible so answered -
"think of it as a coat hanger for a road ensemble."
btw - all examples seen "in the field" from that batch were black. there certainly may have been other finishes but that is all ever saw...
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Canuk
Old School Grand Master
Similar to a bunch of steel no name frames that touched down in our LBS in the late eighties - purported to be Reynolds but were actually low end Vitus tubing knocked up in the thousands in Belgium. Two tone fade possible which was very popular in the era.
The shop owner never said what he paid for them, (most folk bought them for winter trainers and early season bikes), but there was always a quiet smile on his face whenever he sold one!
