show your Casati, and other cool italian steel

[jamesdak]

Some of mine!

Basso Gap:





De Rosa:



And how about my Billato built Giordana rides?





And these Greg Lemonds are italian steel beasts also built by the Billato Brothers.

[DrSpoke]

Here are a few older photos of mine - a '99 Cinelli Supercorsa w/Daytona 10.

[Jingle Jangle]

Originally Posted by Gsinill

My favorite bike amongst all the ones I own (look and ride):



Ps. I actually installed brakes* since the picture was taken






*) working

Ha, I actually had your bike copied by Grandis:

[martl]

I've seen a copy of the Casati in the first posting:



(By Zullo)


But this thread needs more Casati

[Gsinill]

Originally Posted by Jingle Jangle

Ha, I actually had your bike copied by Grandis.

Well that makes two, can't claim to have come up with it myself either, all kudos go to Zullo:



BTW, a Grandis OverMax is on top of my wishlist! Beautiful!

[spacemen3]

Here's one of my favorite Italian marques:



I've got a Casati Gold Line waiting to be built-up. I'll try to snap a photo this evening.

[rousseau]

Great pics in this thread, and I really like the first bike on the first page. I wonder, though...wouldn't this configuration make shifting a bit cumbersome?

Originally Posted by AngryScientist

i keep going back to look at this one on ebay. it's really a handsome looking bicycle.

internal shift cables!

[KarlC]

I REALLY like this one, everything looks just RIGHT about it.

Originally Posted by jamesdak

Some of mine!


And these Greg Lemonds are italian steel beasts also built by the Billato Brothers.

[El Chaba]

Originally Posted by spacemen3

Here's one of my favorite Italian marques:



I've got a Casati Gold Line waiting to be built-up. I'll try to snap a photo this evening.

Dentis are great, but not well known at all in the US. There seem to be a few regions around certain shops that imported them. I don't have any photos right at hand, but I have three of them. One is a "Moser-style" time trial bike with curved tubes, internal cable routing, 26" front wheel, pantographed parts, etc. Denti did lots of work with curved tubing, indented/shaped tubing, reshaping the profiles of fork blades/seatstays, etc...

[bironi]

Regarding the Casati, I would not like the shifter location either, internal cables or not. Nice looking bike otherwise. I have a 95 De Rosa Giro de Italia, but the paint is too faded to post a pic. It was Ferrari red, now it is a faded pink. Still rides heavenly.

[earlfoss]

My friend has one of those GAN LeMonds. It's beautiful! He used to race it, and after backing off of the scene it still gets a lot of use. I wish it was my size...

He's looking for an era-correct Rock Shox to pimp it up Duclos-Lassalle style.

[El Chaba]

Originally Posted by bironi

Regarding the Casati, I would not like the shifter location either, internal cables or not. Nice looking bike otherwise.

I have a couple of vintage bikes with top mounted shifters. It's not as bad as you think, and if you have a double shift to perform you learn pretty quickly to do it all with one hand. I was reminded of one downside while riding my Denti with these shifters a couple of weeks ago...With heavy gloves it's a little tough to get at one lever without bumping the other.

[Jingle Jangle]

Benotto:

[bigman]

Special bike - amazing condition.

[spacemen3]