jerry wrote:
I think several CR members, myself included, have Windsor Pros. They were, in my opinion, a very good clone of a Cinelli Supercorsa at a bargain price. The Cinelli purists sometimes don't like them because they weren't "real" Cinellis. It doesn't help in this regard that quite a few Winsors have been redecaled as Cinellis and passed off as genuine Cinellis. But a CR shop owner recently sold a number of NOS similar Cinelli SC clones, Raysport frames, and had several CR members among the takers. So I guess they are desirable if the price is right.
Regards,
Jerry Moos Big Spring, TX
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I've ridden two or three of these over the years, and all had the same problem...and others have mentioned this, so I'm not alone.
Compared to a Cinelli SC, or any other top racing frame of the period (1970s), the Windsor Pro feels *dead.* It's hard to characterize this problem beyond that word. They feel heavy, and dead.
Someone opined that this was because they were built with straight-guage tubing. I have no idea if there's anything to that. But I can vouch for the essential flaw: the frames feel weird to me. Not lively and refined, but dead and heavy.
ymmv
Charles Andrews
Los Angeles