Re: [CR]What Caused Cinelli to do this?

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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 23:57:22 -0500
From: "Joe Bender-Zanoni" <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]What Caused Cinelli to do this?
To: Angel M Garcia <wa2vuy@mindspring.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
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I would think the Mexican Windsor Pro bicycles with pseudo Cinelli lugs and Lambertini saddles were a prime candidate to get Cinelli riled up. You can bet dealers were touting the Cinelli like features and I remember "stories" of Cinelli being involved with Windsor.

That reminds me. About 1989 I bought a NOS Windsor Pro track bike from my dear former employer at Bicycle Renaissance NYC, Yu Ling Miao. THe bike had been in the box about 10 years. How does $500 with a complete Campy track gruppo and a couple of fresh tires thrown in the box to boot sound. I resolved to tear apart every bearing on the bike based on some former Windsor experiences. Wouldn't you know the factory clowns had reamed the seat tube after installing the bottom bracket. The bearing (no sleave on a track BB) was full of steel shavings and would have been ruined with the first turns of the pedal. They couldn't even bother to turn the bike upside down to do the dirty deed. All that being said, I really liked the bike, it handled like a dream on the Montreal Velodrome. The 76 degree head angle was not too sweet on Vermont roads though. Ouch. Sold it when they tore down the velodrome.

Joe B-Z
GNNJ


----- Original Message -----
From: Angel M Garcia
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 11:06 PM
Subject: [CR]What Caused Cinelli to do this?



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> What was going on, specifically, in the bike market in 1972 that caused "Cino Cinelli & C." to place the half page ad below in Bicycling, August, 1972? Are there forgeries of all these products mentioned floating around? And what rumors was he referring to?
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> "ANNOUNCING, CINO CINELLI & C., the manufacturer of the often imitated, but never equaled CINELLI racing bicycles, UNICANITOR racing saddles and CINELLI handlebars points out, that all his highly appreciated products known under CINELLI and UNICANITOR trade mark are made exclusively in Italy. The affectionate customers are invited to distrust all those manufacturers and dealers, who make no scruples to offer poor imitations, diffusing tendentious rumors. The CINELLI factory reserves to himself the right to prosecute the counterfeiters."
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> Angel Garcia
> Long Valley, NJ