

Seat stay lugs were Gipiemme, brazed into the contour of the rear quarters of the seat tube lug. These 'second series' frames all utilized Columbus tubesets of Matrix, SL or SLX type tubing and featured Columbus 'short point' lugs and Cinelli-type Columbus bottom brackets & semi-sloping fork crowns. The 1984 and later steel frames do not bear the typical Torresini details. Earlier Bertonis have frame details that are similar to the Torresini-made Italvegas. The frames were manufactured in Italy by Daccordi, sometimes mistakenly assigned to Bianchi, which had no connection to the Bertoni brand other than Ben Lawee's Bianchi imports during the 1960s.

īertoni was a brand created by Ben Lawee circa-1980.

For example, my X-T1 is SN: 43A0#, to decipher mine, it's: 4 = last digit of the 2 numeral year it was produced (2014 in this case) 3 = the quarter of the year it was produced (3rd quarter) A = Presumably for the USA, maybe this. Fuji serials have a code in the first 3 characters (typically).

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