Nishiki Olympic Royal, Kawamura Cycles Japan. Made in the period between American Eagle and the take over bij Giant. The Italian features remind of a high-end race bicycle. Peculiar for the late '80ies are the cable guides on the top tube and on the bracket.

Vintage Cinzia frame 1979

Vintage steel race bike Charles Terryn

Charles Terryn, for a time mechanic for Merckx, had a shop in Anderlecht near Brussels. A lot of information you can find on the site of Le Cycleur.

Zullini, a Dutch-Italian connection. The Dutch firm (in Voorburg) van Herwerden had frames made at Zullo (his wife is from the Netherlands) and Chesini under the name Zullini. In the original catalogs of van Herwerden from the '70ies and the '80ies you can admire a lot of what we now call vintage 'stuff'. Among others the Super Strada.

Silvio Billato started after WWII as an apprentice in the tradition of framebuilding. He founded his own firm in 1962. On their current website son Roberto is writing that they made a lof of frames for other brands and teams such as Coppi, Bianchi, Concorde, Marin, Greg Lemond, Look and Fondriest. A family and a firm proud to be 'telaiste'!

Sending some photo's of the bike to Daniele in Verona, the reply was:"Sono entrambe molto belle!!! La Sua Chesini é originale dato che ha le pantographie sui pendenti e anche vicino la scatola del movimento centrale. Sembra anche avere il supporto per la tabella portanumero sul tubo orrizontale vicino al tubo sterzo" By sandblasting the frame and fork the serial number became visible from under a coat of paint.

When riding a vintage bicycle and someone calls you and says 'look what I've got here to get rid of', it's happy days. Fell in love with the lugs, internationally seen (Cinelli, Galmozi, BRH, JNA, Aandewiel, ...) and most propable casted in sand by EKLA (Belgium).

Ciao,