Re: [CR]colnago track frame date

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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 20:16:11 -0800 (PST)
From: "brad stockwell" <brdstockwell@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]colnago track frame date
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Colnago Pista-isti:

I've been comparing Hilary's Colnago Pista with the photos shared by Bret Wade on 8 Feb, "Colnago/Eddy Merckx Collaboration": http://www.fischer-wade.com/bikes/eddygo.htm and also to pictures of a Chiorda track bike (supposedly Gimondi's own) that was on Ebay a few years ago (which I saved pictures of in my Colnago notebook). Bret's photos show a pista frame with the same details as an early/mid-70's road frame: chrome head lugs. Clovers not just on the lower headlug, but on the upper headlug and seatlug as well. Also the same headlugs as the roadbikes. The Chiorda has the same details except the chrome.

Could be the camera angle, but the seatstay caps on Hilary's bike are almost oval, like a small-scale Masi GC stay-cap.

The long points on the lugs of Brett's bike are more thinned at the very ends.

The clover BB cutout on Hilary's bike is different from the other examples of mid-seventies Colnagos (and the Chiorda) that I have pictures of in my notebook. Usually the points between the clover leaves are not reentrant, and usually there is a point mid-way across the base of the clover's stem.

The above are observations; here are opinions: those columbus fork decals look eighties to me. The clover-in-a-C logo shows up on pantagraphing in the 70's but on a fork crown it looks eighties (like on Saronni's '82 bike).

Brad Stockwell, nerdy-fan-but-definitely-no-expert Palo Alto

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