[CR]ebay outing: another Colnago Super

(Example: Framebuilding:Technology)

Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:37:11 -0500
From: <chasds@mindspring.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]ebay outing: another Colnago Super

My, the Supers are coming out to play this week. ;>

This is a nice frame with a couple of odd graphics anomalies. The graphic on the top-tube was almost surely added by someone at a later date, as was the flower-surrounded-by-laurel-wreath graphic on the down-tube. It's actually a bit of a giggle, because as far as I know that flower/wreath graphic never appeared with the flower/world-colors-rainbow badge you can see on the seat tube and head-tube. Those are two separate badges from two different periods...the flower/wreath badge appeared on seat-tubes to about 1975, and that was it, I think...and it never showed up on the dt like that.

Even weirder, the more modern flower/rainbow badge appears in between Colnago-world-bands that disappeared about 5 years before that flower/rainbow badge ever showed up, far as I know...if that was a factory job, I can just knock all my notions of dating Colnagos by graphics into a cocked hat...of course, it's possible it's a repaint, although the seller does not mention any such thing. I could imagine this kind of farrago of decals on a repaint.. or some idiosyncratic custom-order maybe. I've never seen a Colnago frame that looked like this before, in any event.

Whatever the exact case, clearly someone felt their Super just didn't have enough decoration on it.

Charles "I might even bid on this one" Andrews Los Angeles