Veneto road bike

[difool23]

I have bought a vintage Veneto road bike w Scandium frame. The seller was only able to tell me it was probably from the 90s. Would anyone be able to identify production year and model or any other retails from the pics? It's my first road bike, always had MTBs, so have zero knowledge about road bikes.

 

[Jumphigher]

Is it pretty light? I've always loved scandium frames though I've never ridden one.

 

[foz]

It's not 90's, but early 00's. Veneto was the name used by Orbea for the frames they sold in Italy at that time. I had one similar to this, columbus airplane tubing, carbon fork, branded as zeus (another name used at that time, depending on region). It was a very nice bike, rode really well.

 

[uhuru]

It's not 90's, but early 00's. Veneto was the name used by Orbea for the frames they sold in Italy at that time. I had one similar to this, columbus airplane tubing, carbon fork, branded as zeus (another name used at that time, depending on region). It was a very nice bike, rode really well.

veneto was not orbea veneto was a french brand in St Gaudens in basque country and in early 90s was bought by orbea. The frame is from 95 or 96

 

[Canuk]

Veneto is indeed a french brand - they were pretty famous for knocking out fairly massed produced quality bikes at good prices. A lot of the frames were very well finished, with deco paint and chrome. I've had a few, although mostly low end, in Gara tubing but I've got a Genius tubed version which is gorgeous.

You'll find them just about everywhere in France and Northern Spain as they were priced keenly and had a good distribution network in the larger French bike shops. Think Colner rather than Colnago. A lot of them were painted by Cavallo Marino, who specialized in paint jobs worthy of the best of Italian frame builders. In fact I'll probably start a thread about vintage frame finishes and famous painters, kicking off with Cavallo. Here's an example.

 

[Nob]

That’s quite a striking frame looks wise so a nice find

 

[juvela]

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veneto was not orbea veneto was a french brand in St Gaudens in basque country and in early 90s was bought by orbea. The frame is from 95 or 96

Thank you!

do you know the year Orbea opened its Portugal plant and what has been produced there?


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[Jesper]

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Thank you!

do you know the year Orbea opened its Portugal plant and what has been produced there?


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Orbea opened in Portugal c.2000, maybe '99 since that when Orbea was doing a worldwide expansion. They "opened" a factory later in China (not sure if it is independently building frames (I assume CF) there, or is just having the use of a massive Chinese factory who builds many frames for different marques).

 

[Coalfield]

Not to sideline the thread. But can someone tell me the difference between Scandium and 7000 or 6000 series Aluminium.

 

[uhuru]

Not to sideline the thread. But can someone tell me the difference between Scandium and 7000 or 6000 series Aluminium.

Scandium is a 7005 alloy particularity in 90 bike sellers in shop have to tell to future buyer that rider should not weight more than 75 kilos. Alloy was so fragile FRM in italy use it a lot as they were focused on super leight frame at this time. 7005 from easton and scandium from this era has to be bought to trust seller due to wick tube. From this era better bought altec tube. Or 6061 frame such as as caad bike