Re: [CR]Fwd: Colner bikes

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From: Renaissance Cycles <info@renaissance-cycles.com>
To: "Aldo Ross" <swampmtn@siscom.net>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Fwd: Colner bikes
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 22:02:57 -0700


Not bad!..................For 206.-!..........Less the Mountain bike pedals.

BC..................And the gang!........Eindhoven,,,,,,,,Holland!


----- Original Message -----
From: Aldo Ross
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: [CR]Fwd: Colner bikes



> Colner bikes go back to at least 1978 - they supplied the Italian pro team
> "Vibor" that year, and raced in the Giro d'Italia. I think Vladimiro
> Panizza was their main rider. Green bikes. I have pics at home, if anyone
> is interested.
>
> Aldo Ross
> Monroe, Ohio
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <sandranian@yahoo.com>
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 12:25 PM
> Subject: [CR]Fwd: Colner bikes
>
>
> >
> > I received this note regarding Colner bikes, and thought I would forward
> it to all of you...seems to know what he is talking about.
> > Stephan Andranian
> > Costa Mesa, CA
> > norris lockley wrote:From: "norris lockley"
> > To:
> > Subject: Colner bikes
> > Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 00:32:23 +0100
> >
> > HelloI'm not amember yet of the CR list, but hope to be soon. From time to
> time I read the emails sent into the lis and yesterday I found your requset
> about Colner frames. Today I also found a reply which was 90% correct. At
> some time during the early80s and the early 90s Ernesto Colnago marketed a
> "down-market" brand called Colner. I visited the company's stand at various
> Cologne and Milan exhibitions.. The idea was to have a subsidiary brand that
> could be produced in larger quantities and sold to a wider range of agents
> and retail shops, therby leaving the COLNAGO dealerships more exclusive. I
> started negotiations to import the frames into England but withdrew from the
> deal when I found out the quantities they required per month, the range of
> frames to be handled - all models, no choice involved! The final nail in the
> coffin was that irrevocable orders for the next twelve months had to be
> placed at the time of signing the contract. The frames were very attractive
> and no doubt very roadworthy but less elaborate than the Colnago Cx,
> Arabesques etc of that time. Colners could be compared with good brands such
> as Ciocc, Pinarellos. Olmos etc in their looks and buils quality - good
> Italian workhorses. From the front they were readily recognisable by their
> head transfer- a black Ace of Spades. As for the name Colner well, just
> think of it ERnesto COLNago.. There is no doubt whatsoever that the frames
> were bought in and not manufactured by Colnago. Firms like TechoTube,
> Romani, Simonsini often acted as large subcontractors. It is likely that the
> brand was phased out gradually as the main brand became probably the world's
> best known and sought after one. I might have a catalogue somewhere. Hope
> the above proves useful Bye Norris Lockley
> >
> >
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