Rossin vintage Italian Road Bike - $600 (laurel)
New Brooke's Saddle.
Kept indoors
The gears started to slip on me so I started ridding another bike. Body has some rust but nothing on the inside. This one has just been sitting in my house.
I think this is an early '80s model, maybe a Record. Some of the Rossin's I've seen have full chromed rear triangles and are just overall more flashy. Sheldon Brown points out that some of the Rossin's made for the expert market carried more of these touches, while the domestically Italian Rossin's were more toned down. Rossin came about from an amateur race team in the late '70s who rode Colnago, but when Colnago pulled their sponsorship midseason to go for another team the team managers decided they would produce bikes that could be competitive. They hired a long time Colnago shop manager and started Rossin. Also, they invented the disc track wheel.
This guy dropped the price from $700 after having listed it for a few days. "Tons of Campy" but it might be nice if he listed it out. The cranks look like campy NR but you dont get a good look, and I cant see what the rear mech is. The front derailler and shifters are, the headset is, the brakes are Suntour Superbe. So if it has one Japanese part, it may have more. And even if the rear derailler is campy NR too it was slipping on him enough to stop riding. That doesn't make a lot of sense, as you could fix that with a screw driver, or swap the part pretty easily. This is a lot like the custom from earlier today, he's not riding it for a reason and that reason may be the same reason that makes you stop riding it. You would suspect Columbus tubing but it isn't specified. I've never ridden Colnago or Rossin so I cant say how they compare. It's certainly a nice looking bike but some very big paint chips that have rusted, maybe you've fallen for it.
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