Originally Posted by
mech986
As mentioned above, the other way round. Torresini established Torpado (TORressini based in PADOva) and built Torpado bikes and frames as well as Italvega for US distribution under contract from Ben Lawee. Torpado's primarily appeared in Canada and Europe, a few have shown up in the US from time to time. Your model appears to be a nice frame with stamped dropouts and agree, probably Falck tubing straight gauge. Frame and fork probably weighs 6 pounds or so?
that was very enlightening, thank you! it's certainly noticeably heavy, but not really molto pesante. always enjoy the education to be had from members here, and much appreciated. the seller of my frame had listed it as a Tornado.