Fred wrote:
"every steel Cinelli stem I've seen (plus the couple I've owned, which makes a grand total of abouta dozen) had a Cinelli badge riveted to the top of the extension."
There are actually far more Cinelli steel stem without badge than with badge. I have three unbadged ones in my garage right now. I believe the badged ones are more sought after because they are 'flashier', but apart from Cinelli bikes, I don't believe they would have been used as OE parts.
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Steven Maasland
Moorestown, NJ
> If I recall correctly, several people on the CR list have
> Cinelli adjustable track stems. So it would be easy to get a
> photo and compare it to the stem on the Pivo stem on the Urago.
> Now, this might not be the case for adjustable stems, but
> every steel Cinelli stem I've seen (plus the couple I've owned,
> which makes a grand total of abouta dozen) had a Cinelli badge
> riveted to the top of the extension.
> Either way, I don't think there's any shame in using a Pivo
> stem instead of a Cinelli. For '50s technology, the Pivo stuff
> was often quite nice. The problem is that, after the mid '60s,
> they never advanced their designs and continued to use the old
> moulds and tooling. Consequently, the Pivo parts that we
> recall from the late '60s and the '70s tend to look somewhat
> rough. But that wasn't always the case.
> Regards,
> Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia
>
>
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