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Re: Hello DIMAXVELO, Your Ferraroli shows the characteristics of their Prêt à Rouler (stock sizing, brazed in Japan, painted and assembled in Switzerland) frames from the early 1990s, which were used to build the Dolomites, Nevada and Etna bike models. Here are excepts from their 1992 catalog...

The prices in this document are listed in French Francs. Divide by 6.5 to arrive at a rough current equivalent in Euros.

As promised, here is part two, in which the MTBs get more interesting. Enjoy, and I'll try to post a couple earlier Ferraroli catalogs soon. Cheers, The Kid

Merci beaucoup to GG for sharing this with me/us. Look for the second half, including the rest of the Swiss-brazed, made-to-measure MTB models, soon. Cheers, The Kid

Re: Hello sBob, I have a single silver AC brake booster plate. PM me if you are interested. Cheers, The Kid

Re: Hello Andy, I have a grey Flite, but not perforated, NOS. PM me if you are interested. Cheers, The Kid

Hello everyone, Here is another Swiss-made, silver-brazed beauty which I saved from the bin at my local community bike shop. This was made before Ferraroli began to use a year code in their serial numbers, so it's not possible to be sure precisely when it was made, but either 87 or 88 according...

Re: Hi Doug, PM sent. Cheers, The Kid

Re: Good luck with the very black threadless BB. It will be nice to see that beauty rideable again. If you want a more posh & period correct solution, the old Mavic BBs also used a threadless design, but the closest spindle length to 122.5 was 124mm. May I ask what happened to the skinwall...

Re: Thanks to ccinhtown, xxnick1975 and Si_33 for bringing this thread back from the dead. I recently paid attention to this bike for the first time in months, swapping on a Turbo Gel saddle, whose once bright yellow base had faded over time to closely match the yellow paint. Icon O'Classic...

thekidmalone's early 90s BikeTech MultiCross XT Hello everyone, Submitted for your approval, while fully expecting that some of you won't approve of it as a mountain bike on the basis of the 700c wheels and drop bars. Hey, just because you can ride it to, during and back home from a race...

Hello everyone, In the 1990s, when Markus Storck was the German importer for Klein, and before he started his eponymous brand, he offered steel bikes under the BikeTech brand. These were most often built on frames made in Japan by Toyo: a flag-waving German / Japanese alliance, what could go...

Re: Hello Jamie, Thanks for keeping this competition alive, even when the number of entries is low. I almost entered the contest, until I realized that my favorite image from this winter was one in which I was riding, and someone else had taken the picture. I looked for rules in the Wiki, but...

Hello everyone, When I saw this one pop up in the local internet classifieds, it was on like anti-Monopoly: go directly to La Chaux-de-Fonds, do not pass this bike up, and do collect $200 on the way. Here is a reference for how little the original paint had faded over almost 30 years. It...

Re: My white Taperlites have been cut to 500mm length. Unfortunately, when I tried to clean them up, the pad-printed Taperlite logos smeared all over the place. There is now just a faint hint of the original logo left. :facepalm: I was so discouraged at this development that I put them away...

Re: Hello again, Sorry about the delay. I lost most of my weekend to the honey-do list and the stomach flu, and am just catching up now. No, I don't have pics with me. I will grab some snaps and check the length either this evening or tomorrow morning. Cheers, The Kid

Re: I have a white Taperlite, but it has been cut down and isn't in the greatest cosmetic condition. Unfortunately, it's in Switzerland, and will cost at least 8 GBP for me to ship to the UK, even slow and untrackable. If you're still interested, send me a PM. Cheers, The Kid

Re: Hello shawnb, Must they be 3DV/purple? I can probably dig up a pair or two in gold. PM me if interested. Cheers, The Kid

Re: Hello cherrybomb, I have a minty XC which could fit the bill. The steerer seems to come up a few mm short of your 180+ target, though. Please excuse the 5:30 AM camera phone snaps in a dark, messy garage. It was taken off a nearly new bike which I stripped for the XT M737 group last...

Re: By the serial number codes I have observed and collected, and from chatting with the head of a family in La Chaux-de-Fonds who still owned five (all owned from new and bought direct) Ferrarolis as of a year ago, I am relatively certain that they were still made into 1997, and perhaps even...