stelvio bike

warrwych said:

A friend of mine has an old steel bike, perhaps about 20 yrs old. It's a Stelvio and a funny pale olivey limey green metallic colour. Dont remember what the groupset is on it - something old and surpassed 😉 It's a great looking classic bike.

Does anyone out here in forum land have any idea about the history/origins of Stelvios, where they were made, by whom etc?? Any snippets of info gratefully recieved :-)

I am hoping that the likes of hippy may be able to shed some light here??

thanks in advance

found this thread on C+UK forum where a guy mentions racing on a Pinarello steel Stelvio...

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"warrwych" <[email hidden]

Quoted message said:

A friend of mine has an old steel bike, perhaps about 20 yrs old. It's a
Stelvio and a funny pale olivey limey green metallic colour. Dont
remember what the groupset is on it - something old and surpassed 😉
It's a great looking classic bike.

Another guy posted a similar question on uk.rec.cycling:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Stelvio+bike+company&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=6Dwh7.884%24QG.586046%40monolith.news.easynet.net&rnum=3

Seems it is made of a "Nervex 7005" alloy.

There's also a Marin Stelvio, a Pinarello Stelvio, a
Bianchi Stelvio.. a mountain pass "Stelvio", Stelvio
tyres.

Other than that.. I'm at a loss..

hippy

hippy said:

There's also a Marin Stelvio, a Pinarello Stelvio, a
Bianchi Stelvio.. a mountain pass "Stelvio", Stelvio
tyres.

Other than that.. I'm at a loss..

hippy

Stelvio is a famous pass/climb in the Giro d'Italia apparently.

peobably why everyone bar kmart has named a bike after it. like ventoux, AlpDHuez, etc

It's a stunning pass to drive (I've only done that by car). If on the bike,
you'd better check your brakes....
http://www.ulb.ac.be/di/ssd/ldoyen/e/stelvio.html

Joop

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Quoted message said:

hippy said:

There's also a Marin Stelvio, a Pinarello Stelvio, a
Bianchi Stelvio.. a mountain pass "Stelvio", Stelvio
tyres.

Other than that.. I'm at a loss..

hippy

Stelvio is a famous pass/climb in the Giro d'Italia apparently.

peobably why everyone bar kmart has named a bike after it. like
ventoux, AlpDHuez, etc

--
flyingdutch

hippy said:

"warrwych" <

There's also a Marin Stelvio, a Pinarello Stelvio, a
Bianchi Stelvio.. a mountain pass "Stelvio", Stelvio
tyres.

Other than that.. I'm at a loss..

hippy

Stelvio is the old L'alpe D'huez it seems hehee - nike makes stelivo shoes for women, giro has a stelvio helmet....

Had another look at the Stelvio in question - it's not a pinarello, bianchi, marin (its a definately a road bike ), made from Schwalbe rubber etc. It has Galli gears on it and made from Reynolds tubing. From what I can gather, its a locally put together bike from imported bits - like most bikes I guess, but I suspect it's probably an LBS custom job of frame plus whatever groupset was affordable and available and not japanese at the time.

Many thanks for the input guys. Maybe some one out there has one hidden away or knows someone who... It's a lovely bike, goes like a 20 yr old racing car - classic. I am trying to talk my buddy into racing it in Club races but his reaction is :eek: hehehe

On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 07:49:58 GMT, "hippy" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Another guy posted a similar question on uk.rec.cycling:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Stelvio+bike+company&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=6Dwh7.884%24QG.586046%40monolith.news.easynet.net&rnum=3

Seems it is made of a "Nervex 7005" alloy.

There's also a Marin Stelvio, a Pinarello Stelvio, a
Bianchi Stelvio.. a mountain pass "Stelvio", Stelvio
tyres.

Other than that.. I'm at a loss..

hippy

My old road training bike was a pale blue Stelvio, bought second hand
from a dodgy private seller in Brissie who knew nothing about it. It
came with Shimano 105 groupset, & lookied pretty daggy. I cleaned it
up, replaced it wiyh Mavic wheels & upgraded it to 600EX.

It was a wonderful comfortable bike & I clocked up 1,000's of kms.

I used it occasionally for club racing instead of my Viner & think
it was probably a much better bike. I also loaned it to some of
clubmates, & many of them offered to buy it after they had ridden it.

I sold both when I decided to build my Daccordi. Have to say the
Daccordi was a better bike.

John L.

If it has some small European flags on the decals that Stelvio I seem to
remember comes from Perth in the mid-eighties.
Steve @ IDEAL

"warrwych" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

A friend of mine has an old steel bike, perhaps about 20 yrs old. It's a
Stelvio and a funny pale olivey limey green metallic colour. Dont
remember what the groupset is on it - something old and surpassed 😉
It's a great looking classic bike.

After finding everything else named "Stelvio", except
the bike you were investigating, I thought you'd like
to know that I just fitted Schwalbe Stelvio training
tyres to my road bike!! Yes.. another Stelvio!! :-D

Come on Rogers!! I wanna see a GOLD medal!!

hippy

hippy said:

After finding everything else named "Stelvio", except
the bike you were investigating, I thought you'd like
to know that I just fitted Schwalbe Stelvio training
tyres to my road bike!! Yes.. another Stelvio!! :-D

Come on Rogers!! I wanna see a GOLD medal!!

hippy

Hey Hippy - and how are those Stelvios on ur wheels?? It's such a great name - just rolls off the tongue.. gunna call my next pet Stelvio me thinks
😄

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