Re: [CR]Colnago History on website

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Campagnolo)

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:25:28 +0200
From: "renaissance-cycles" <info@renaissance-cycles.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Colnago History on website
To: chuckschmidt@earthlink.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
References: <41291AE0.91604DF9@earthlink.net> <412A56CA.59B21293@earthlink.net>


Looks like to me.......................It all be later stuff, nowhere close to what I have seen from this period!...............Lazy bone, lazy bones................Makes me groan!

BC..................And the gang!!


----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Schmidt
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: [CR]Colnago History on website



> Chuck Schmidt wrote:
> >
> > This is the history from Colnago's web site.
> >
> (cut)
> > 1969: Colnago introduces microfusion casting of fork crowns and lugs,
> > which are much more reliable than those obtained with the traditional
> > system of forged fork crowns and pressed lugs.
>
> Lower head lug:
> http://www.colnagonews.com/prova2/storia/immagini/storiaimg/micro1.jpg
>
> Bottom Bracket:
> http://www.colnagonews.com/prova2/storia/immagini/storiaimg/micro2.jpg
>
> Fork crown:
> http://www.colnagonews.com/prova2/storia/immagini/storiaimg/micro3.jpg
>
> Seat lug:
> http://www.colnagonews.com/prova2/storia/immagini/storiaimg/micro4.jpg
>
>
> That's the one I question... the fork crown in particular does not look
> like a 1969 design to me at all, more like mid 1980s. Of course maybe a
> lazy web site designer just grabbed a photo of some mid 1980s Colnago
> lugs for the web site???
>
> Anyone else out there have info on or remember Colnago intro'ing
> investment cast lugs on their late '60s bikes?
>
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> South Pasadena, Southern California

>

> .