This Italian bit of bling is best suited for the taller gent, or a long legged lady. It’s a 62 cm frame, so you will need a fine long leg to ride it.
It’s mint. Look at it.
It looks the business
It is the business
It’s an l’object d’art, their’s no denying it.
If you like you can come in and take a closer a look. Don’t touch it though, or Cassius will have your hand off. And I will have the other for good measure.
£950.00 fully rebuilt and serviced.
Posted in For Sale, Italian Bikes and Parts
Peter is from the States, but lives in the U.K. This bares little relevance to the story, I am just giving some background information.
Peter rides to work, I am unsure of what he does or where he works, but I know he carries his son around on his bike a lot.
He came and bought a bike off Rob a year or so ago. Sadly he had a crash, and although he came off relatively unscathed, the bike was a write off, all but for one hub which he managed to salvage. Bravo Peter.
Peter needed a new bike prompto. He came to the shop and the Freddie Grubb frameset caught his eye (he found it attractive, it didn’t blind him fortunately, he isn’t that accident prone).
Peter from the States was in the favourable position of commissioning a build, which meant he could have what he wanted and how he wanted it.
So he took:-
1 x1950′s Freddie Grubb frame,
1 x 3 speed Sturmey Archer hub,
1 x (salvaged) dynamo hub,
1 x set of Mavic touring rims,
1 x Brooks saddle,
2 x rolls of leather bar tape,
1 x Cinelli stem
1 x set of Cinelli drops.
It's like swapsies at school, but with bigger stakes
The story takes a twist. This is because Peter from the States happened to have a 3Rensho in Robs’ size. It only took a 2 minute ride of the 3 Rensho for Rob to decide it was the ride of his life.
A bit of wheeling and dealing went on, numbers were talked of in hushed tones, and a deal was struck. You don’t need all the details, but lets just say everyone was happy.
The whole shebang
The bike turned out to be an absolute belter, and Peter was pleased as punch.Rob was also happy as he had new bit of kit to play out on.
Just to think it all started out with an accident, every loud has a silver lining eh.
Local lad Ed, is a familiar sight around these parts. We often see him ‘of an evenin’, sometimes on his bike, sometimes on his skateboard, sometimes on foot. He tends to nip to the mini market, 3 doors up from here, around 6 o clock in the evening. I wouldn’t know what he buys, and it’s not for me to say really, but I often hear the sounds of clinking bottles as he passes by.
Ed, is a very keen cyclist, I have seen him with quite a few different bikes, and when he wonders past in the evening (clinking), he can’t help but push his nose up against the window and admire the steel angels descending from the ceiling.
Sometimes he comes in and has a chat, and a beer.
Last week he came in for a chat, and talk turned to the Olmo Superlight.He had it bad, he wanted her.
Ed, through caution to the wind, and took her home.
He threw the frame over his shoulder
We haven’t seen Ed since he got the Olmo, and I don’t like asking at the minimarket, but they did say they hadn’t seen much of him either.
It goes to show really, doesn’t it, what the right frame can do for a person.
