For Sale: Frames: Tomassini Super Prestige, Rare Vitus Low-Pro TT, Aende TT, NOS Raleigh, 753

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vitus and aende are porn!

Loving the Tommasini James. Hell of a good price too. Splendid.

The Aende is lovely, just wish it was bigger. A guy in my cycling club had a pink Aende as his best bike back in the day and used it for 25 & 50 mile time trials his other time trial bike was a chrome Carlton track.

Vitus is the nuts.. remember it on ebay last year but couldn't bid ;( Alas too rich for me now but good luck with the sale.

Really? Remember one with Mavic Oro rims and a gold coloured Gipiemme crankset. Very bling! Always regretted not buying it. Must be more of these about than I thought...

Thanks Wayne, That Viriginia track frame of yours sold yet? Trying to resist buying it!

Haha... nope, still got it.

The Vitus is not a Vitus, it's a Mecacycle and this one is the Turbo Plongeant model. I have a Turbo that you can find details of on Retrobike, although mine now has a set of original Mecacycle bars that were also fitted to the TP version. See the catalogue at http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyclecrank/2206652410/in/photostream/ for details of the frame and the wierdo bars.

Gordon

Just to add to my post above, the frame is almost certainly made of Super Vitus 980 tubing, the seat tube is actually a pair of forks before they have the bends but into them. The TP model isn't fitted with a front mech mount, probably just as well as you can't get a front mech to fit them any more. I had to modify a Suntour Cyclone 2 front mech and mill an adapter for it, which was a total bitch to do. Good job it comes with a seat post as it's a quill fitting one and you can't new ones either. The frames have a bit more flex in them than you might expect as SV980 is very thin walled and light. Mine came with an original set of Mecacycle decals but I scanned them before fixing them to the repainted frame, if anyone wants a copy of the scan let me know. SV980 decals are available from Cyclomondo on Ebay and at my request he now does the fork decals too.

Gordon

What's the fit like on the vitus, compared to a conventional frame? I'm a little bit tempted by it, but not sure whether it's going to be too small for me...

Hi, what is the brake drop on the Raleigh frame?
Would you sell without the fork?

Really like the Aende Time Trial Frame. I'm 6,3 do you think it would be to small for me?

I like the Aende frame a lot.

Presumably, it takes 700c wheels ?

Would you post any of your frames ?

dibs vitus for a friend - pming now

Potential Dibs on the restoration project - following weight info

Hi, I like the look of the Raleigh frame. By chance, I saw it advertised in an earlier thread of yours with a matching fork, I take it this doesn't exist any more?

That Vitus/Mecacycle was beautiful..