Jan Jannsen

"Handmade in Italy for the Dutch Jan Janssen company. Estimated mid 90's."

Anyone know who made these in Italy?

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Rychtarski

Rychtarski, the Polish frame builder that is working with the re-issued Columbus MAX tubeset, has a new website at www.rychtarski.com. You can find a couple of other examples of his work along the alphabetical listing in the right column.

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SOMEC

SOMEC "Promax" with MAX tubeset. You can see the differnce betwen this and a "Dynamic" model which uses Minimax (photos here).

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SOMEC

SOMEC "Dynamic" model which uses Colombus Minimax.

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SOMEC

The owner of this frame writes:

I think this is Somec’s Dynamic model. Most other Somecs in your blog are ProMax model.

The Dynamic model has a unicrown fork with dropped seat stays from the seat ‘lug’ and has MiniMax tubes in Somec catalogs available. The tubing decal on mine says Max but the 'D' in my frame’s SSN of D110 may well correspond to Dynamic (number is on BB and steerer tube).

The ProMax model has Max tubes, a microfusion fork crown & most all Promax’s have seat stays more traditionally situated on the side of seat ‘lug’. There is one ProMax with dropped seat stays but it does not have unicrown forks.

Who knows, mine could still be a ProMax simply due to its Max tubeset. I’ve gone through the Somec catalogs at Somec website to arrive at this estimation: http://www.somec.com/en/factory/vintage_catalogs/


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Caloi

Caloi is a Brazilian brand for which Eddy Merckx made MX Leader framesets for. Thanks to reader Ronaldo for the photo of his Caloi Lotto Vetta team bike.

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Grandis

Grandis "OverMax" made with special oversize Max tubeset from Columbus Late 1990s). At the time this was the "top" of the top frames from Grandis.

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