NISI rims?

[DSH]

As far as I understand the Monchlieri rims were from the late 1970s and are the best of the old Nisi.

Please don't take this as the absolute truth, it is rather based on snippets of info from here and there and seeing these rims on very nice older bikes. Hard and fast info is hard to get. I have a pair of Nisi rims which are white (but not on the braking surface) and have never been able to find anything out about them.

Someone more knowledgeable will be able to identify the spokes, again I have a sense of "very nice" but can not be more specific.

 

[jackosbournesnr]

Have done a bit of Googling on your behalf and Moncalieri seems to be the model.

Here's a link to sold sale page from this very site... http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php

 

[nammonk]

Re:

I used to have a pair of these in 28h for tubs. As said, very low depth, quite narrow (20mm, IIRC). I built them up fixed for off-season training, but never really took to it, so didn't use them much.

I think they were 80s rims (I got them NOS in 1993). They had the look of something from the late 70s or early 80s, though I got the feeling they may just have been a bit old-fashioned looking. Silver, no anodising, and with double eyelets (quite a few of the Nisi rims came with washers rather than eyelets). Pretty middle-weight for sprints (a bit over 400g, I think), so not the lightest in the Nisi range. The only markings on them were "Moncalieri", but this is indeed the suburb of Turin where the factory was based. I did quite a bit of digging and came to the conclusion they were Corsa Stretto, but I don't know for sure, and I don't have them any more (sold them on here a few years ago).

edit: there are some pictures of them here: http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=201010

I thought they were nice rims. Even though they were 28h, I didn't have any problem with them, either building up or riding. They felt more solid than my favourite Mavic CX18s... Having said that, I wasn't thrashing them in sprints and I didn't do too many miles on them.

I don't recognise the spoke marking, but there are a couple of five-pointed stars listed in the wonderful "Spoke Head Identification Chart" here: http://www.mrrabbit.net/docs/spokeheads/main.html. Could be "Stella"?

Nick

 

[Woz]

Re:

Another trip up the attic, and yes it appears that the engraving - or rather stamped letters -is indeed Moncalieri rather than Monchlieri .... the top of the A in block type uppercase is missing due to concave nature if the rim making me think it was an H.

So that one is solved. At some point there was a circular sticker around the valve hole. There are
no eyelets, just washers supporting
the spoke nipple.

I'm leaning more to late 70s now or
something lower down the food chain
rather than top draw exotica.

I guess without a catalogue scan the model name will remain a mystery. I would post a picture, but my old Windows phone doesn't allow it.