My new Bugatti

Before I go further, I must say it is not the Bugatti bike of fame with the thin multi-top and
bottom tubes. This looks like an Italian manufacturer re-badged a bike as a Bugatti. It has very
nice chromed lugs on the headtube, which are very pointy. It has a flat fork crown, also chrome, it
has campy shifters and rear der, and a Campagnolo decal on the down tube just above where the
shifters clamp on. The wheels have no identification on them but are 27 inch steel rims and have
high flange three piece hubs and Gnutti quick releases. The crank is unidentified and cottered. The
brakes are Universal. The only junk on the bike are the brake levers, which have the 70's panic bars
on them. It has thick unidentified chromed horizontal drop outs in the rear and has a derailleur
hanger. The frame has no decal indicating the tubing. The bike is quite nice and I am curious if
anyone has ever seen one of these and who made them. I searched Google, Classic Rendezvous and other
sites but I can only find reference to the aforementioned rare and strange Bugatti. Any ideas?

Any bottom tube cutout? Lots of Italian steel bike makers used to have their trademark cutout down there as a water drain hole.

DiabloScott <NOSPAMdiabloscott@terra.es> wrote in message news:<3f85924c$1_2@news.chariot.net.au>...

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> Any bottom tube cutout? Lots of Italian steel bike makers used to have their trademark cutout down
> there as a water drain hole.

There is a serial number scratched into the bb shell, but it looks like something done with a nail
for bike theft prevention reasons, not something put there by the manufacturer. The bb shell has no
cutout or other marking. Neither does the steer tube, which I inspected when I took the fork off.

Other interesting things:

The top tube has cable guides brazed onto the bottom of the tube, there is a seat post collar, no
threaded bolt fixture, the seat stays are brazed to the sides of the tops tube lug, not behind it,
and it has a plastic saddle that says Grand Prix, with an adjustment mechanism like on a Brooks.

--Keven.