Re: [CR]Colnago Mexico

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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:43:45 -0800
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Marc Boral" <mbikealive@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Colnago Mexico
In-Reply-To: <20011128.142943.-145441.7.richardsachs@juno.com>


Any chance of scanning that catalog for the group?

I have not seen a catalog from that year. There are a couple of reviews on Supers from '79 and '80. Both articles show no engraving on seatstay caps. This is good info your sharing Richard.

Marc

At 11:29 AM 11/28/2001, Richard M Sachs wrote:
> >>It wasn't until '81 when Colnago started to engrave their seatstay
>caps.<<
>I have Colnago catalogs from my first trip to Milan in 1979. The frames
>had engraved seatstay caps then.
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>On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:11:16 -0800 Marc Boral <mbikealive@earthlink.net>
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> > Scott,
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> > It wasn't until '81 when Colnago started to engrave their seatstay
> > caps. Does it actually have "Mexico" decals on each chainstay? If
> > so,
> > that's strange for a touring model. But I have never seen the
> > touring
> > model. A few mail order houses advertised Colnago touring frames in
> > the
> > early eighties. I'm looking at a Bike Nashbar ad from Bicycling
> > magazine
> > of 3/'82. It says the frame has "the quality of a Super, but
> > designed for
> > the fast sports riders". It comes with eyelets for racks and 2 sets
> > of w/b
> > braze-ons.
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> > Marc Boral
> > Long Beach, CA
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> > At 11:58 PM 11/27/2001, Roadgiant@cs.com wrote:
> > >Hi all,
> > > Can anyone tell me about a Colnago mexico with eyeletted
> > dropouts. Was
> > >this bike intended for touring with fenders? Would it have had the
> > 'mexico'
> > >components of Colnago pantograped Campagnolo parts? What years was
> > it built?
> > >The frame in question seems to be a '78-'80 judging from the
> > Colnago engraved
> > >seat stay cap, yet both dropouts are Campagnolo.
> > > Thanks for the help and thank you to all of those folks who
> > helped with
> > >my Bridgestone question.
> > >
> > >
> > > Scott Smith
> > > windy, cold LA. Just the way I like it