Just found this pretty cool Olmo Tuareg for sale near me. They don’t have a price out but it looks really cool and I love the color of the paint.
Would you go for it or pass it on? It has Columbus cromor tubes and exage 300lx rear derailleur.
It kind of reminds me of a lotus Pegasus which I absolutely adore.
Anyone knows why the frame was designed with that thing hanging near the bb?
Thanks!!
by RobVolt
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I know nothing about this bike, but I imagine that thing hanging below the BB is there to protect your chainring
The fork looks like it might be bent
Buy it, at least its way more interesting that all these treks and specializeds people post here all day long.
I’ve never even heard of Olmo,. but lugged Colombus bike with that paint would be absolutely irresistible to me. Looks like decent replacement wheels (purely an assumption).
Looks like a Toyota.
Thats a instant buy. Check out the clearance on that fork!
Olmo was (er, is still probably?) an [Italian roadie](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/xkppRsohGtdhsAfoBZfEZ6.jpg) brand. Just like Colnago, DeRosa and others they made attempts at mountain bikes in the late 80s, but it was never their focus.
Cool bike
Edit: I got curious and looked Olmo up to see if they are still around. They look to be but have certainly fallen off from building bikes for Oscar Friere back in the day. They were legit whenever this bike was built tho
Buy it now!!!
Very cool frame and rare now, depends on the price as you can see they’ve upgraded it a bit with the 1x and v-brakes so they probably “know what they have”, this would be a great garage sale find but if they’re at $300+ you need to decide if you think it’s worth it
Get it! Those a excellent frames!
That strange structure below the BB appears to be a “bash guard” to protect the chainring when cycling off-road over rocks and logs. Never seen anything like that (from factory)… but that’s pretty cool! More modern mountain bikes use a thick plate mounted to the cranks (outboard of the chainring) for this same purpose. Wild!
I vote you buy this and treasure it. It’s clear the bike could use some TLC (noted: plastic pedals, terrible brake adjustment)… but appears to be a solid and interesting ATB from the late 80s or early 90s. Cool!