What De Rosa is this?

[jamesdak]

Been doing a massive purge of the bike collection due to the ol' brain wandering too much these days to keep up with it all. Worked a deal yesterday with another bike guy were he took four of the rides in trade for give me a good chunk of change and then this De Rosa. Lot's of nice bits on it but not sure what year/model it is. I'm thinking Primato but not sure. Any one have any ideas?

This is how I brought it home with the shipping case and the protective sleeves for all the tubes. Oh and some odd and end parts.

[Velocipede]

De Rosa Neo Pro. Was made in the early to mid-90's.

[paredown]

Nice rig--I'd love to ship that around for some trips!

[jamesdak]

Originally Posted by Velocipede

De Rosa Neo Pro. Was made in the early to mid-90's.

Thanks, hard to find out much on these or documentation. So if I remember what I did find this is the time frame Gita was importing them?

I'm perfectly happy with the trade I made that included this but I wonder what the value of this would be now with the hard case and all, any ideas?

I'll probably clean and lube 'er up this morning and take it out for a little test when I go for the day's ride.

Need to source a wrench for those couplings which I did find available on line at at least one place early yesterday. I've never dealt with them before.

[jamesdak]

Originally Posted by paredown

Nice rig--I'd love to ship that around for some trips!

Yeah, not sure how practical that aspect is for me.

I've haven't flown since 2008 and all my vacations revolve around nature/wildlife photography and I already haul a ton of gear for that. I travel in a full size truck and there's always been plenty of room in it for a bike to come along.

[jamesdak]

Going over the whole bike closer right now. Some of the details speak to spending time with the design, at least to me. One thing I've never seen with the 50 or so steel bikes I've had is that the "cutout" on the drive side rear dropout is filled in with metal. The other side is cutout per what I'm used to seeing. The BB lug has small webbing on the inside of each chainstay part but the webbing doesn't bridge over between the sides like is fairly common. The weird thing though is the stem/headset setup. It's got some king of locking mixed in the with spaces that seems to have the purpose of locking in the headset. The cap on top of the stem is just a plug in cap. No bolt that I'm used to seeing with that preloading the bearing and locking in the headset.

Anyone see that before?

Otherwise no real surprises. Fair amount of touch up paint that's hard to see until you are about a foot away.

Gonna finish up this quick little lookover and get ready to ride. I'll take this for a little shakedown after I get my proper ride in.

[texbike]

Nice bike and incredible pictures!

Texbike

[jamesdak]

19 lbs 7 ozs after a clean, degrease, and pulling off the wired computer stuff. Down a whole 4 ozs from what it came home at, wow!

Kidding of course, my weight 4 ozs just ain't mattering.

Oh, and I think that's a Campagnolo Ti seatpost on it. Someone put a fair chunk of change into this one.

Appears to be an old Fizik Allante Carbon Ti saddle also.

[m_sasso]

James is the head set any thing like this? Innicycle https://cyclingtips.com/2020/10/inni...-8-threadless/

[jet sanchez]

Originally Posted by jamesdak

Lovely picture

Is that a vole?

[zmudshark]

If I'm not mistaken, that frame originally came with a steel De Rosa unicrown fork. I have no idea how the unicrown rode, but it was hideous looking.

Looks like a great score.

Nice critter photos, too.

[jamesdak]

[QUOTE=m_sasso;2914316]James is the head set any thing like this? Innicycle


Nope standard threadless setup. Not sure what's going on with the way it was secured. Didn't notice until I got it home.

[jamesdak]

Originally Posted by jet sanchez

Lovely picture

Is that a vole?

Yep, or in this case...a snack.

[jamesdak]

Originally Posted by zmudshark

If I'm not mistaken, that frame originally came with a steel De Rosa unicrown fork. I have no idea how the unicrown rode, but it was hideous looking.

Looks like a great score.

Nice critter photos, too.

Yeah, seems like a De Rosa should have a pantographed flat crown fork on it. Still it probably rode quite well being designed that way.

[choke]

Originally Posted by Velocipede

De Rosa Neo Pro. Was made in the early to mid-90's.

I have to disagree with the production era. The "acciaio" on the seat tube and web address on the seatstays scream late 90's to me. I can recall when they did that labeling, it lasted a year or two and I think that it was around 1998 or '99, though it may have been early 2000s. Very few companies were labeling products with a web address before 1995/96.