Genuine itailan steed

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  • Velonutter
    Velonutter Posts: 2,437
    If you really want something very special then have a look at the Scapin steel : -

    http://www.scapin.com/eng/bici-carbonio ... e/gallery/

    I have fallen in love with one of their Carbons and came across this steel this afternoon.

    100% Italian
  • chip42
    chip42 Posts: 145
    Paolo, what frame have you got?
  • matt-h
    matt-h Posts: 847
    Velonutter wrote:
    If you really want something very special then have a look at the Scapin steel : -

    http://www.scapin.com/eng/bici-carbonio ... e/gallery/

    I have fallen in love with one of their Carbons and came across this steel this afternoon.

    100% Italian

    The EtikaRC is lovely
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  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    Italians are, generally speaking, famed for their 'design' rather than manufacturing. I wouldn't sweat it. Just get a nice bike - look at Planet X, they have some Italian bikes at good prices.

    Besides, I'd get a Look!
    'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    ugo.santalucia wrote:
    t4tomo wrote:
    arran77 wrote:
    Lets get 1980's Fiats and Alfa Romeo's into this argument if we are going to hint at Italian Engineering :D

    Still plenty of those around in Italy... not many Rover left running round here though... :wink:

    Well there's a surprise. There weren't many Rovers or any other foreign cars running around in Italy in the 1980s. Back then most cars were sold in the country they were made in. Your wink doesn't make any sense :wink:
    Faster than a tent.......
  • giant_man
    giant_man Posts: 6,878
    chip42 wrote:
    Paolo, what frame have you got?
    Why, do you think he's got an italian bike cos he's Italian then?
  • giant_man
    giant_man Posts: 6,878
    Bike Swanky wrote:
    De Rosa are celebrating 60 years of frame manufacturing with these if you want exclusive:
    http://www.i-ride.co.uk/catalogue/i-rid ... 00/facets/
    The steel one is only £8,300 :)
    Geez they're hideous like most De Rosas, probably the last Italian (in name only these days) marque I'd go for. Ridden a few and they're really nothing special ...
  • jordan_217
    jordan_217 Posts: 2,580
    giant man wrote:
    chip42 wrote:
    Paolo, what frame have you got?
    Why, do you think he's got an italian bike cos he's Italian then?

    I'm guessing he's got a vintage (ish) Tommasini :D
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  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,312
    I have a 1980 Sannino frame, Italian, which I have had for around 25 years... then I have a Genesis croix de Fer, which is now being replaced by a Genesis Fugio, another Taiwanese job.
    left the forum March 2023
  • on-yer-bike
    on-yer-bike Posts: 2,974
    Italian bikes arent anything special to an Italian, its the Brits and the Americans that have some kind of romantic idealism about all things Italian when it comes to bikes. I've got it quite bad which is why I probably wasted a shed load on a Pegoretti and wont buy anything other than Campagnolo. It even hurts to put a Specialized saddle on a Pegoretti. A Rourke seemed so boring and English, with thoughts of 1970s industrial disputes and Union Jack stickers on everything, compared to a Pegoretti.
    Pegoretti
    Colnago
    Cervelo
    Campagnolo
  • iPete
    iPete Posts: 6,076
    I was quite pleased to hear my latest frame is currently in shipment from Italy to the UK. It was probably built and welded in Taiwan but we all like a little romance don't we...

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