Will habm!
Isch hamm jetzte datt bei mir zuhuss!
Seit gestern Abend nach der Arbigge nell' officina - gegen 21 Uhr ausgepackt!
Rivola
SP 437
matching frame and fork number as original red primer and livery
dal 1963 fino 2006 (Gianni left 2005, and went to Somec
...)
L'azienda fu ufficalente registrata presso la Confartigianato nel 1964 -
The company was officially registered at Confartigianato in 1964
Massa Lombarda, Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna
2nd son and framebuilder / telaista Gianni Rivola, after Umberto Chiesa, di Bologna
or Rivola s first inhouse frame builder Umberto Chiesa...
(about 20 hours for a frame - almost three work days. Steering tube, bottom bracket shell and seat-tube were brazed in a softwood* coal forge (fucina a carbone legno docle*), took about one and a half hours. Plus the rest, which was brazed using a brazing torch & castolin.
*
Weichholz
Chierici Parma, investment cast bottom bracket shell
pinned / Feinguss Tretlagergehaeuse
gestiftet / scatola movimento microfusione (a cera persa) centrale
puntata (puntatura..)
fork crown has two vent holes drilled crosswise making it hollow
like here
this Davdison frame & fork were brazed by the star brazer at Davidson - Mark Bulgier (to which the frame belongs too), not DiNucci like the filename erroneously states
, pardon!
Columbus SP tubing
Campagnolo 1010/b Porta Catena dropouts / Ausfallenden / - by tecnociclo sestese
how the chainstays and seatstays especially as fork blades are modified towards the dropouts and how these are brazed!!!
custom top tube brake cable braze-ons
seat lug
the weight reduction above the "relief bore/hole..."
seatstay caps - Strebenspiegel
livrea bellissima - beautiful livery - wunderschoene Lackierung
looks much better in real