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Kimmo
Just finished putting together this rowdy Italian. Thanks to @Zeeburg for posting the classified ad on the forum for the frame which arrived yesterday, and thanks to @coventry_eagle at BC for sorting me out yesterday with last minute cables and housing and a step down ferrule, something I never seem to have in my parts bin.
Not sure if 10 speed still counts as modern components, but its about a decade newer than
the frame so I'm claiming it qualifies. The panels on the down tube and seat tube are sprayed with pink, red, yellow and light green bands and so the bike reveals different colours depending on where you look at it from. And it has stampeding horses along the top tube so I obviously had to buy it.
It's so over the top Italian I love it. Previous owner forwarded an email from Tommasini who confirmed the frame is from Nov 91 and was made for Belgium distributor Van Peterhem sport. Miami Vice had finished the year before, and to me the bike still evokes images of Pantani and Cippolini breezing through Italian villages shattering windows with their neon bikes and jerseys by day, and horsing through fistfulls of cocaine like Tony Montana and sneaking out of married women's bedrooms by night.
Returning to the real world I had to see what it looked like with some old Shamal tubulars I had, but I'll not be riding around London on those regularly so also shown with its everyday shoes. Apologies for rubbish phone pics just managed to snap them before the light disappeared.
