Vintage Enthusiasts-Found NOS Detto Pietro Shoes

[johnkjos]

Hi all,

After searching for a long time I finally found the type of vintage shoes I've been wanting to buy. Just sharing this with the vintage cycling enthusiasts on this site. These shoes have a reputation of being one of the most comfortable shoes of its era. Can anyone tell me how to figure out the year of manufacture or the years in which this design shoe was made? There are no date tags or hints in the shoes themselves.

[carpediemracing]

Those holes are really large. I don't know if it was before my shoes or not, but I got my shoes in... 1982? Are those Art. 74 shoes or something else?

My Detto label was red white green or something like that. I don't know if the blue ones are newer or not.

[bobswire]

Hi all,

After searching for a long time I finally found the type of vintage shoes I've been wanting to buy. Just sharing this with the vintage cycling enthusiasts on this site. These shoes have a reputation of being one of the most comfortable shoes of its era. Can anyone tell me how to figure out the year of manufacture or the years in which this design shoe was made? There are no date tags or hints in the shoes themselves.

If you're sharing a link would help. :)

[Fixed]

I wore those but I don't remember the holes being that large .
Nice looking shoe for summer
Cheers :)

[AgilisMerlin]

https://www.google.com/search?q=detto+pietro+shoes&client=firefox-a&hs=2DK&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=fflb&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=l79QUvurJfa14AP1oIGYCQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1360&bih=600&dpr=1

models above


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http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8359/8346946386_32bae26f69_z.jpg

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[tiretrax]

I don't remember any other model in the 80's. I bought a pair o))(f Brancales because they had fewer, smaller holes. Where did you find them?

[VA-Scooter]

Those look newer than mine. I got mine in 1972.

[carpediemracing]

I guess mine didn't have any logo on the side. The red/white/green was the little label near the laces. My shoes in action:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TbmplkIYLx8/S4HjHXM79CI/AAAAAAAACuI/-fG-iYy_y50/s800/IMG_0002.jpg

[carpediemracing]

(Detto)

I don't remember if the picture is from when we went to that race together. It might have been the following week? I just don't remember.

[danman]

It looks like the uniroyal spring training series.

[AgilisMerlin]

you brainwashed me, and my brain needed a good washing.

remember how fuc&ing long it took to get that bike... remember

nice ciclocomputer, btw

my introduction to intervals :crap:

I don't remember if the picture is from when we went to that race together. It might have been the following week? I just don't remember.

It looks like the uniroyal spring training series.

if i was in need: these would do http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/1635/vit6.jpg


you sure this isn't new britain? you guys are still in the digits

*just thinking about you today, and driving down, after trees are down, for a long, slow, flat conversation ride."

[johnkjos]

To respond to the guys/gals who posted input to my question about the age of the Detto Pietro shoes.
1. There is no link for my posting. I got the picture from the seller.
2. The shoes are in transit. I'll look at all the tags when they show up for hints as to age. The original wooden shoe thing (what do you call it?) is still in the shoes. Maybe that will give away the approx. date of manufacture.
2. I bought them from a serious enthusiast in San Jose, CA. I think he said he had 4 vintage bikes. He was afraid to use these shoes. He had them for display only.

I don't see how to respond to each posting. Is there a way? Nice picture of a race. Taken in early 80's I'd guess. Right?

Thanks everyone for providing your input.

John Kjos (attaching a picture of my Colnago prior to reinstalling original Super Record components)

[BryanE]

Shoe trees

[AgilisMerlin]

i tried last night getting a rundown, visually

let me try again

[sales guy]

if i was in need: these would do http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/1635/vit6.jpg


you sure this isn't new britain? you guys are still in the digits

*just thinking about you today, and driving down, after trees are down, for a long, slow, flat conversation ride."



The shoes you posted, not available. At least not that version. Those are made out of leather. They don't offer them. They only offer a microfiber version(synthetic leather). Trust me, I know for an absolute certainty they don't offer them.

[carpediemracing]

It looks like the uniroyal spring training series.

Yes, exactly. 1984, not sure if that was the last year.

[AgilisMerlin]

fark, this is a difficult one.

http://vintagewheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/detto-pietro-was-born-in-1895-and-is-on.html

Detto Pietro was born in 1895 and is on the market with an offer of cycling bicycle racing high-end technical handicrafts.Detto Pietro also offers customized products for the range mountain bike and triathlon and makes it even more enjoyable for the bicycle in the city through a range of city bikes with high style.Detto Pietro also offers a wide range of products from the best brands on the market.Detto Pietro in the heart of Milan with a shop big, bright and well equipped.The offer said Pietro is based on the concept that every athlete must have a bicycle adapted to its physical structure because this is the factor that allows to fully exploit their potential. Said Pietro addresses this need by creating custom bikes on the physical characteristics of the client through a customized production using components with the highest technical quality on the market.But Pietro said the bikes are not only technically advanced, are also attractive thanks to a special attention to the choice of colors and design. Owning a bicycle said Pietro is all a factor of great pride and great satisfaction technique.

The national and international image of the Detto Pietro firm comes from an history which begin one hundred years old with the introduction by the establisher Detto Sante of a great innovation in the cycling world: the shoes for racing bikes.
The Detto Pietro was founded in the far 1895, as a firm of innovation in a phase of big technical and cultural changes, from the cinema of the Lumière's brothers, to the first pneumatics Michelin, to the first biennial of Venice. The shop placed in the heart of Milan showed the little shoes which in all over the world are become the standard for cycle racing. And "the Detto" have been used by the most famous champions: from Girardengo to Binda, from Coppi to Poblet, from Terruzzi to severals others athletes. In the seventies and more precisly in the eighties, the reply capacity of Detto Pietro to the sudden changes of the market and his exigencies, lead the firm to specialize in the offer of racing bikes, and become a reference of quality and image in this market segment. Quality, image, professionality, responsiveless to the changes have been the keysuccess factory of Detto Pietro in its first one hundred years of life, as well as they will be its strengths facing the new challenges of the years 2000.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0EL4iQdWrYE/TFP5Urpn2XI/AAAAAAAAAh4/vqwJcM61f_s/s1600/DSC03874.JPG

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HUUwkgt9lQw/UadGBZzdJ1I/AAAAAAAABC0/tRCJKJtljy4/s1600/Detto+Petro.jpg

[AgilisMerlin]

fark, this is a difficult one.

http://vintagewheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/detto-pietro-was-born-in-1895-and-is-on.html

Detto Pietro was born in 1895 and is on the market with an offer of cycling bicycle racing high-end technical handicrafts.Detto Pietro also offers customized products for the range mountain bike and triathlon and makes it even more enjoyable for the bicycle in the city through a range of city bikes with high style.Detto Pietro also offers a wide range of products from the best brands on the market.Detto Pietro in the heart of Milan with a shop big, bright and well equipped.The offer said Pietro is based on the concept that every athlete must have a bicycle adapted to its physical structure because this is the factor that allows to fully exploit their potential. Said Pietro addresses this need by creating custom bikes on the physical characteristics of the client through a customized production using components with the highest technical quality on the market.But Pietro said the bikes are not only technically advanced, are also attractive thanks to a special attention to the choice of colors and design. Owning a bicycle said Pietro is all a factor of great pride and great satisfaction technique.

The national and international image of the Detto Pietro firm comes from an history which begin one hundred years old with the introduction by the establisher Detto Sante of a great innovation in the cycling world: the shoes for racing bikes.
The Detto Pietro was founded in the far 1895, as a firm of innovation in a phase of big technical and cultural changes, from the cinema of the Lumière's brothers, to the first pneumatics Michelin, to the first biennial of Venice. The shop placed in the heart of Milan showed the little shoes which in all over the world are become the standard for cycle racing. And "the Detto" have been used by the most famous champions: from Girardengo to Binda, from Coppi to Poblet, from Terruzzi to severals others athletes. In the seventies and more precisly in the eighties, the reply capacity of Detto Pietro to the sudden changes of the market and his exigencies, lead the firm to specialize in the offer of racing bikes, and become a reference of quality and image in this market segment. Quality, image, professionality, responsiveless to the changes have been the keysuccess factory of Detto Pietro in its first one hundred years of life, as well as they will be its strengths facing the new challenges of the years 2000.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0EL4iQdWrYE/TFP5Urpn2XI/AAAAAAAAAh4/vqwJcM61f_s/s1600/DSC03874.JPG

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5065/5550927060_3573c8a4f4_b.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HUUwkgt9lQw/UadGBZzdJ1I/AAAAAAAABC0/tRCJKJtljy4/s1600/Detto+Petro.jpg

http://img5.blogs.yahoo.co.jp/ybi/1/89/ce/wk4868/folder/597807/img_597807_11718967_4?1264259968

http://lh3.ggpht.com/-6ENHbdzBykg/T47C-2f5JAI/AAAAAAAAGwc/QNv0pAcG5oI/s0/IMG_3192.JPG

http://www.velo-pages.com/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=6603&g2_serialNumber=2

flashback pic (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_atrK-jBKJKY/R6zIIqnKURI/AAAAAAAAB-I/nlaQQy0Gsew/s320/bETTINI%2BLIMITED%2BEDITION%2BSHOES.jpg) / pardon

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http://homepage3.nifty.com/ClassicBicycles/brands/components/DettoArt12sole.jpg

[carpediemracing]

you brainwashed me, and my brain needed a good washing.

remember how fuc&ing long it took to get that bike... remember

nice ciclocomputer, btw

my introduction to intervals :crap:

you sure this isn't new britain? you guys are still in the digits

*just thinking about you today, and driving down, after trees are down, for a long, slow, flat conversation ride."

I think I ordered the bike in Sept, got it in Jan? after the shop moved. In that picture I'd done the "aero brake cable" treatment to it, before I got the nicer Modolo brakes. 32H GP4s with Clement Futura tires. I might have the front wheel still.

Definitely Uniroyal, off of 84 in Southington (?), I remember that exit because a) we missed it one week in the BBC van and b) they used to set up a speed trap there with an SVO Mustang at the end of the bridge on the left and "pull over" cars after the exit on the right.

This was the race where I told you to take it easy, we had plenty of time, then you or your dad said, "Hey, don't you/we start in 5 minutes?" and it was 5 minutes before the start.

Come on down after the leaves are down. They're just started to fall now, it'll be a bit before it's clear.

[carpediemracing]

Detto

Remember Ken B's Detto frame? Candy blue over chrome. He was the first guy to talk to me about bike racing.

[mikemowbz]

Definitely among the most appealing vintage shoes! And well-matched...

[tmf]

Hi all,

After searching for a long time I finally found the type of vintage shoes I've been wanting to buy. Just sharing this with the vintage cycling enthusiasts on this site. These shoes have a reputation of being one of the most comfortable shoes of its era. Can anyone tell me how to figure out the year of manufacture or the years in which this design shoe was made? There are no date tags or hints in the shoes themselves.

I had these exact same shoes with the same size holes when I was racing as a Junior. It would have been somewhere from 1981-84, but I can't remember exactly which year I had them. Most likely '83 or '84.

[redir]

I guess mine didn't have any logo on the side. The red/white/green was the little label near the laces. My shoes in action:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TbmplkIYLx8/S4HjHXM79CI/AAAAAAAACuI/-fG-iYy_y50/s800/IMG_0002.jpg

Kick ass brain bucket too. Did you paint that or find one like it?

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OP Detto's

I'd love to find a pair of shoes like that but there are not to many in size 49. I never see them that big but those look big in the pic. What size are they?

[AgilisMerlin]

Remember Ken B's Detto frame? Candy blue over chrome. He was the first guy to talk to me about bike racing.

http://www.velobase.com/VeloImages/RoadRace/99F65ECE-E949-4BBF-B3A9-FE02346F7B5F.jpeg

[carpediemracing]

Kick ass brain bucket too. Did you paint that or find one like it?

I painted it. I also "added" a couple more vents, I think 2 at the front of each side row, one at the back, plus one or two on each side in the back. I also "ported" them by rounding out the inside of the vents. Because, you know, ventilation is so important. Heh.

You can't see it in the picture but there are Japanese Kanji characters around the top. I asked my mom to write stuff like Strength, Speed, etc, and I painted them on there.

I actually don't know where the helmet is else I'd have done a blog post about it a long time ago. I definitely didn't get rid of it so it's around somewhere.

[carpediemracing]

http://www.velobase.com/VeloImages/RoadRace/99F65ECE-E949-4BBF-B3A9-FE02346F7B5F.jpeg

yep.

I love that slight chain sag.

I'm pretty sure Ken's didn't have the white panels. It was just blue and that stuff just chipped off like nobody's business.

[fiamme red]

I actually don't know where the helmet is else I'd have done a blog post about it a long time ago. I definitely didn't get rid of it so it's around somewhere.In my mind that sort of helmet is closely associated with East German and Soviet sprinters.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1989-0624-011,_Michael_H%C3%BCbner,_Bill_Huck.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1985-0819-028%2C_Michael_H%C3%BCbner%2C_Lutz_He%C3%9Flich.jp g

[AgilisMerlin]

Aki,

will bring laptop and scanner, on visit, and go through old photo's :banana:

K

) and with that conversation, y0u got the hook (