A very nice Rossin Prestige.
Hexagonal steel tubing but with aluminium forks to save weight.
8 speed Dura Ace build
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| One of the lightest Rossin framesets, the Prestige used hexagonal tange steel |
GARY FOUNTAIN'S ROSSIN PRESTIGE
This Rossin Prestige was probably built around 1990. Gary Fountain put it together with Campy bits and pieces mainly from the C-Record era. He added ITM stem & bars, along with a Concor Profil saddle. The paintwork is original and the chrome is in perfect condition.
Tubing is Tange Prestige which has been specially shaped with 6 facets. Every tube, stay and fork blade has six facets that blend into a round section - except for the steerer tube which is round in section. All tubes end in a lug of some sort or other.
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| The Prestige has Rossin pantographs where you don't often see them |
The colour is hard to describe - sort of a metallic pinky, coppery, brown.
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That last one is something else.
ReplyDeleteI recently picked up what appears to be a Rossin Prestige. The frame seems identical to these, although it had no Rossin decals nor tubing decals.
Terrible paint job too, unfortunately, as Ive seem quite a few online with really nice paintwork.
Anyway, thats being remedied as we speak. Im now hunting for decals. While the Rossin decals dont seem to be too hard to acquire, Im having trouble even finding a decent photo of the Tange Prestige decal to get a scan done.
Great work here by the way, its proved a great resource for me since stumbling upon this bike!
The orange and white photo with the "One of the lightest Rossin framesets, the Prestige used hexagonal tange steel" is my frame. It is a rare frame for sure. Curiously, it only has one set of cage bosses. Nothing on the seat tube. It also has Italian threads on the steerer tube. I bought it from Italy so that explains the threads. British headsets do work, but it is a tight fit.
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