Product Description
Feast your eyes on a rare piece of Italian art! Angelo Picchio began crafting race winning frames back in 1946. He is revered as a master frame builder, though never gained the popularity of his contemporaries like Masi or Moser. He made very few frames each year, and they are rather difficult to find these days (even in Italy!). The elusive but highly influential Giuseppe Pelà actually built a lot of Picchio frames, and it's possible this one was built by him.
This frame had only one owner it's entire life, a 120 pound lady in Boulder. She bought it in 1982 (verified by the Pat. 82 Nuovo Record rear derailleur and crank it came with). The frame has recenty been repainted, and is nearly perfect. It appears to be a very high quality paint job.
The first thing you notice about this frame is it's blaring pink tubes! The photos represent the color accurately. Once you re-adjust your eyes, you start noticing the fine details like the finely shaped and sharply scalloped lugs, and the pink-painted cutouts on the lugs, inner fork legs, and inner seat stays. Then there's the esquisite box fork, with chrome crown. Even the top tube cable guides are worth a second look as they're quite unique. It also features a pump peg.
Size
The small/medium 52cm (c-c) frame will fit someone roughly 5ft 3 to 5ft 8. Long top tube at 54cm
Condition:
Excellent lightly used shape. The frame and fork are straight, and has NO bends/dents/cracks/gouges. The paint and chrome look amazing with very few tiny blemishes (you really have to search for them). There's a bit of minor paint damage under the front derailleur clamp area. The non-drive dropout has paint missing from the axle end.
Details
- Frame material: Steel, likely Columbus SL
- Campagnolo seatpost binder bolt
- Seat tube: 52cm (c-c), 54cm (c-t)
- Top tube: 54cm (c-c)
- Steerer: 1 inch threaded
- For 700c wheels
- Bottom bracket threads: Italian
- Seatpost size needed: 27.0mm
- Frame number: None