[CR]Cinelli bikes and their parts

(Example: Framebuilders:Cecil Behringer)

From: "C. Andrews" <chasds@mindspring.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 10:42:36 -0700
Subject: [CR]Cinelli bikes and their parts

Peter Kohler wrote, in part:

"Well folks can "believe" anything they want! But pray tell what was non Italian manufacture on most Italian racing bikes c. 1960-80s? My Cinelli SC does have a Brooks saddle. The rest is tutti Italiani.

The only foreign bit on a PX-10 is what? Well the Reynolds tubing! Or maybe the Brooks saddle if that's what was fitted.

Today of course it's quite different but CR period bikes... yep, that's Italian. Or French. Not belief or opinion. Just the list of components." *****

Uh. Many Cinellis shipped out as frames only. Local shops built them up to taste. I have a very interesting 1950s Cinelli *B* formerly owned by Carsten Rehbein and Jack Bissell that was built up by a famous Berlin shop (name escapes me at the moment, the bike is not available for me to check), with a mix of stuff. It's exactly as pictured in the shop's catalog of the time. Simplex TdF derailleurs, with a suicide front, among other things. This bike won best-in-show at the 2004 Cirque. Hardly all-italian in any case.

This continued well into the 60s... Spence Wolff built up many Cinelli frames with a mix of parts, including Phil Wood hubs, if I remember right. Someone correct me if I don't...

Charles Andrews SoCal

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