No idea, but those protruding stem bolts are scaring the shit out my knees.
Psychological_Bag808 on
Colner
janusz0 on
Just thinking about riding fixed without clips or cleats scares me!
Is that rust stabilised with linseed oil or similar?
special_20 on
Tough call. The Heart emblem is part of de Rosa branding, but by no means a trademark. Those cutouts are a quality control measure so you can see adequate flow through. I believe at least one lug manufacturer adopted the heart symbol for their commercially available lugs and you see that symbol on a lot of frames. Any other markings on the frame?
Also, are those dropouts original? Those plate style dropouts seem incongruous with the fancier head tube lugs. The welds look a bit sloppy as well. Higher end bikes would typically have cast dropouts.
HewithNofaith on
Never seen such a throughly rusted frame before but good on u for restoring it- thousands of perfectly good bikes are just thrown away. Makes me so sad
johnbobby on
My Battaglin has hearts in the lugs like this (and so do De Rosa’s as another commenter mentioned) but this is definitely not an Italian frame because the lugs around the bottom bracket are sloppy and clunky, as is the seat tube lugs. Only the head tube lugs look good but not great. So that means the tubing would not be Columbus or Reynolds or Tange. Not Italian, not English, not Japanese. So… my guess is it’s heavy Taiwan made junk. Sorry.
thisquietplace on
I would try to make a tub big enough to put this frame through electrolytic rust conversion if you’re going to restore it, it would be a good way to retain as much metal as possible with rust this bad
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DeRosa? Idk if they made track frames tho.
DeRosa
You should resto this bike. It is very desirable.
No idea, but those protruding stem bolts are scaring the shit out my knees.
Colner
Just thinking about riding fixed without clips or cleats scares me!
Is that rust stabilised with linseed oil or similar?
Tough call. The Heart emblem is part of de Rosa branding, but by no means a trademark. Those cutouts are a quality control measure so you can see adequate flow through. I believe at least one lug manufacturer adopted the heart symbol for their commercially available lugs and you see that symbol on a lot of frames. Any other markings on the frame?
Also, are those dropouts original? Those plate style dropouts seem incongruous with the fancier head tube lugs. The welds look a bit sloppy as well. Higher end bikes would typically have cast dropouts.
Never seen such a throughly rusted frame before but good on u for restoring it- thousands of perfectly good bikes are just thrown away. Makes me so sad
My Battaglin has hearts in the lugs like this (and so do De Rosa’s as another commenter mentioned) but this is definitely not an Italian frame because the lugs around the bottom bracket are sloppy and clunky, as is the seat tube lugs. Only the head tube lugs look good but not great. So that means the tubing would not be Columbus or Reynolds or Tange. Not Italian, not English, not Japanese. So… my guess is it’s heavy Taiwan made junk. Sorry.
I would try to make a tub big enough to put this frame through electrolytic rust conversion if you’re going to restore it, it would be a good way to retain as much metal as possible with rust this bad