No help on the subject form me, but I do have an add on question to those in the know. Could this Tinazzi be the Tinazzi that raced for Torpado in Italy in the late 1950s? I have a scanned PIC of him in a Torpado squad photo that I can email out. Thanks for the info.
Also, wasn't there some change in the "foot" of the Colnago club/flower, where it went from flat bottomed to convex, or vice-versa?
Ciao, Mark Agree Southfield MI ~ ~ ~
In a message dated 9/13/2004 9:39:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time, classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org writes: Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 01:59:08 +0100 From: "Norris Lockley" <Norris.Lockley@btopenworld.com> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Subject: [CR]1971 Colnago Track Frame Message-ID: <000a01c4992c$f42d5980$01c18351@oemcomputer> Content-Type: text/plain;charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: list Message: 1
I'm not sufficiently clued up early Colnagos to be able to comment on = this particular machine, and cannot remember unfortunately when Colnago started engraving his top-eyes etc Did he do it from the = first frame.. I doubt it.
However I've always hankered after an early "ernesto" from th 70s, a bit = like the one Saronni used to ride - just that red flam, chrome forks and = those white panelled decals. some weeks ago I spotted a "Velo de Course" = on French ebay.. going for very few euros indeed... and it was my size. = I followed the auction with interest, thinking whatevere the red and = chrome bike might be it just had to be a bargain...With only a little = time left i sent an email ti the seller asking what "marque" the bike = was. his rapid reply said "Colnago" I was quite overwhelmed..
knowing that I was about to leave for France within a couple of days I = decided to bid on the bike and, if succesfsful, have it sent from = Marseille to my caravan in Provence, about two hours away by wagon. I = won the auction and it was with a great and overwhelming sense of = anticipation that I opened the HUGE cardboard box..
At first glance I had obtained my objective.. a resplendent flam ruby = and chrome Colnago shone in the rays of the Provencal sun..but that = world-renowned type face did not spell out Colnago... but Tinazzi. = Tinazzi the former French pro has a tio shop just outside Marseill at = Aubagne,famous throughout thre world as the setting for Marcel Pagnols = poignant novels..
studying the frame I noticed the clover-leaf cut-out in the down = tube-head tube lug, couldn't find any engraving on either the fork crown = or top-eyes, but turning the bike upside down rejoiced at seeing the = large Colnago motif cut out of the bracket shell.
My joy was short-lived as I was certain that this frame was no Colnago = but a very subtle copy .. and well executed ...The "give-away" is that = the foot of the trefoil is not flat but slightly radiused downwards.. = not too much .. but sufficient not to breach Colnago's registered = design. Clearly the seller had been duped... Other cyclists on the caravan site thought it to be original... but I am = not too sure.. but it's a nice frame anyway.. The final word will rest = with M. Tinazzi... if he ever replies to my email.
Can anyone help out here.. could it actually be a genuine Ernesto..?
Norris Lockley...just reflectong on the thought that if you can't = convince them you should confuse them, as my old Prof. used to = say..Settle UK