OWK’s stable - De Rosa / Geoffrey Butler / Ridley Oval

Hello,

A few weeks back I got lucky to grab a real bargain in Lithuania..Unfortunately the seller's daughter got sick and I had to go through that mini-phase of fearing a scam! But he's been a real gent and it's on its way!

Bigger than my Rourke, Columbus Max, and more importantly, yellow!

Here's a bit of info that I didn't know much about:

The Societa Mechanica was organized by Giro d'Italia mechanic Oliviero Gallegati in the 1960s, in order to set a group of working standards. When he opened his bicycle shop in Lugo, Italy, rather than following the almost universal custom in the Italian cycle industry of naming the company after himself, he instead named it Somec, for Societa Mechanica. A very small artisanal shop, Somec makes only a few bikes a year, out of steel or aluminum.

http://www.somec.com/

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