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----- slightly OT sidenote - there was an actual manufacturer of cycles with the name Torello which was located in Savona they were the producer of the Ideor Asso marque -----

----- one commonly encountered BOCAMA bottom bracket shell on quality model cycles is the pattern "Professionnel" here is a nicely dressed one being worn by a Gazelle Champion of 1979: -----

----- ALESA is a marque belonging to Weinmann it has been reported that some Scheeren model rims were produced at the Weinmann facility in Belgium -----

----- 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 -...

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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...

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----- one simple check you could make would be to measure saddle pillar diameter a size of ~26.2/26.4 would be suggestive that the frame's three main tubes are 531 plain gauge a smaller diameter would be suggestive of hi-tensile tubing -----

----- dating note - wheel rims appear they may be RIGIDA SUPERCHROMIX if this is the case they may exhibit a date inside a small diamond symbol near the name as here: the cycle's Huret Svelto gear mech will express a date marking in the form of a four digit number, a practice which...

----- why doth this post read like and advert... -----

----- "Cradle that bottom bracket!" -----

----- Witcomb frameset - head lug feature cut pattern BOCAMA 30 serie one would need view of front to determine specific model nr. head lug nozzle cut is BOCAMA pattern /II seat lug is BOCAMA pattern /II fork crown is Vagner model Nr. DP ends set is Campag Nr. 1010 housing...

----- def worth it for the d-box alone! 🤩 headset be Thomas D. Cross & Sons Limited model "J" agree that "Cricket" transfer appears aftermarket -----

----- pillar size suggests three main tubes 531 plain gauge -----

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----- dating note - if one takes the machine's Sachs-Huret bits to be original to it they should provide a specific date beginning in 1978 fittings received a four digit date marking where the first two digits indicate the week of the year and the second two the year as in this example -...

----- lovely job and most thoughtful fittings selection! 😍 a brave project to take on the replication of a chromovelato finish, also sometimes referred to as chrome-o-luxe headset is Thomas D. Cross & Sons Limited model "S" - like earlier posters am much impressed you got the Benelux to...

----- plate style bridges suggest a base level model this seat stay treatment where the stay top fits into a socket on the seat lug is seen only on lower models from the Rokycany factory -----

the frameset's head tube angle may or may not be seventy two degree depending upon frame geometry variables the marking on the head lug indicates the angle between the socket for the head tube and the socket for the downtube -----

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