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----- Hello again Mehdibike, You might wish to consider asking the moderators to move your thread over to the Retro Classic Road forum where it would generate more views and replies https://www.retrobike.co.uk/forums/retro-classic-road.12/ it is slightly out of place in this area -----

----- Hope she were pitted! 😱 --- simple eno' matter to check tube diameters and threading to confirm metricalitude https://forum.tontonvelo.com/viewtopic.php?p=555337&hilit=radior#p555337 firm founded 1904 advert of 1923 J. Chapolard et Goudet, pere et fils additional...

----- in about '83-'84 saw in person a NOS made in Japan Bianchi fork whose steerer carried a Bridgestone symbol recall wondering at the time if it was Bridgestone manufactured or if it may have been a steerer contracted for by Bridgestone which ended up with another maker... -----

----- IIRC our member @non-fixie has some hands-on experience of this marque and should have some solid information to share ;) -----

----- Hello Mehdibike and thank you for sharing this machine with the forum. --- frame - constructed with Agrati bulge-formed head of "EXPORT" pattern Agrati "AMERICA" pattern seat lug N. 086.8569 Agrati bottom bracket shell, likely model N. 022.8507 Agrati dropouts N. 000.8002 Agrati...

----- Hello javel and thank you for sharing this interesting find with the forum. See nothing in the details of construction to suggest Italy. There have been Italian dimension cycles produced in Belgium, Mexico, Texas and California. Among South American producers the standard employed...

----- I also thought might be seeing a character there off to the left of the numerals. Your eyes the ones on the scene. ;) Reassuring to think was not hallucinating. :rolleyes: -----

----- Wonderful buy for twenty-five Roberts! 😁 This seat stay plug was widely employed in Britain during the 1950's and into the 1960's; have never known the maker, have suspected it might be a Haden piece. Frame may be slightly earlier than appears at first glance. Likely to be eleven...

----- --- 🥳 and steerer threadin' be but one item... then thar be friction shifting systems cottered chainsets & their bottom brackets gear blocks with < vii-cogs clamp-on parts & accessories... ...eetsa longue list! 🥴 -----

----- --- 😂 this is particularly sound advice in the case of rental storage spaces where we understandably purchase the smallest size we can into which everything will fit 🥴 -----

----- --- how reads transfer at base of seat tube? --- spots to check for possible date markings: back side of crank arms portion of stem down inside steerer portion of seat post down inside seat tube hub barrels back side of brake caliper arms gear block wheel rims appear they...

----- luuuuuuuukout thar young feller! discovered five or six decades back that "junque expands to fill the space available to it" as in "I have no idea where THIS ever came from!":LOL::p -----

----- shell is interesting in that it exhibits sockets for downtube & seat tube but none for chainstays wonder if backside made smooth or if it has plugs for chainstays checked my Brampton materials and no shells of this patern are shown --- pedals appear to be Phillips Apollo -----

----- lugs - both Brampton Bros. & NERVEX offered this nozzle cut it was fairly commonly seen during the interwar period made by other producers as well NERVEX offered three patterns of feature cut with this horizontal slot but none are a match for what the cycle wears head parts - appear...

----- 🥳 have seen a Bridgestone logo on other frame bits in the past it has made me wonder if the firm a supplier of frame bits as well as cycles perchance one of our framebuilder members will know... -----

----- was wondering this as well if a Koga it would be likely constructed with Ishiwata they were the first european producer to employ it, beginning 1973 -----

----- good detective work - you've really been busy ;) note how the stay ends of both the grey and the red Tommasini exhibit a "chisel" type of treatment, this is a nicer way of doing it than the plain domed ends of your frame, it takes more work and adds to production cost the chainstay...

----- with respect to originalness of fork - ends appear they may be Campag there should be a name legible on their flat faces markings are sometimes reduced in legibility when fork is polished in preparation for plating dropouts appear asian so if fork ends Campag that would represent a...

----- thank you for the further imagery the specific contour of the domed stay ends when combined with the dropouts is suggestive of an asian origin for the frame when you had it in bare metal in preparation for the respray it may have been possible to read one or more tubing markings, such...