Re: [CR]RE: "NOS" Cinelli on Ebay

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Ideale)

Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 19:02:47 -0700
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]RE: "NOS" Cinelli on Ebay
References: <3FB71F22.44103764.0FD8938F@netscape.net>


Kurt Sperry wrote:
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> Oddly perhaps I thought the exact same thing when I read that the Speedplays had been fitted for "testing", although I suppose this could mean they had just used the pedals to hand spin the cranks while setting the derrailleur limit screws in the stand. I doubt it. Unless there are fit issues I don't think there's really any need to test ride a bike after a build up if the mechanic is good.
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> Perhaps it's only me, but I get no buzz whatever off Cinelli products made after the change to the flying C logo. None. I've seen a couple up close and they were nicely built and finished but... nothing. I suppose I will never forgive whoever was sufficiently lacking in taste to go from the classic Cinelli look to the major fugly flying C kit. I know it's shallow, but to me it's just not Cinelli anymore after the change.
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> Kurt Sperry
> Bellingham WA

As a graphic designer, I've gotta say that I love the Flying C logotype. Very representative of Italian graphic design in the seventies; very representative of its time, just as the earlier circus-style logotype with the crest-style headbadge was representative of its time.

I'm still looking for an 80s Cinelli SC to go with my 1960 SC.

Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, CA

"Tis with our judgments as our watches: None go just alike, yet each believes his own." --Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

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