Recent content by retromark

The olympic commentary, or frequent lack of it, put me right off watching it after the professionalism, in-depth knowledge and light-hearted banter of the ITV4 team during the TDF.

Great tip - thanks ! I dropped in there this morning and he was still there. Very helpful and friendly chap. Mostly 1980s Italian jerseys today which was perfect and I came away with two. Not a huge amount of other bike stuff just some town commuter type bikes and generic spares, but he will do...

The guy who runs the Retrospective Cycles website actually does the bikes as a sideline to his retro scooter business. I think his mate goes out to scooter and bike jumbles in Italy and picks up the bikes that way. Totally agree that they could make an effort to clean the bikes up before sale. I...

Yeah I was a bit surprised to see this poor quality weld given his reputation in Italy and it made me question whether it was an original Stelbel. I've posted up on a couple of Italian vintage forums and they seem convinced it's genuine though. Looks like the weld got too hot and started to melt...

Here's a bit more about Stelio Belletti and his bikes http://www.eroicacicli.com/blog/meeting-mr-stelbel/ And here's the photo showing the small pores in the weld that I mentioned above Cheers Mark

Hi all First post here :D I have just bought this 1980 52cm Stelbel racer from Retrospective Cycles in London. Researching this one has been fun and it turns out it is one of a 1000 custom made bikes by Stelio Belletti who produced bikes in Milan between 1971 and 1991 (more on him and his...