Harvey: thanks for your input about the Cinelli. The date from the Wolf Sales Logs has it sold in 1963 and I misplaced the original owner's name. Serial is #585. I tried years ago to track down the original owner, to no avail. Maybe Mr. Johnson or anyone else who has a copy of the Wolf logs could look it up for me?
For that matter, are the CBS (Cupertino Bike Shop) Wolf logs posted somewhere? Could/should they be? I see that the "old" Mark Petry registry, while still living out in cyberspace, has been surplanted by another "Cinelli Registry". My last name is still misspelled there, Vanna.
Oh and apologies for my laziness! All I needed to do was to acknowledge my suspect memory cells and mosey over to that Interplanetary Repository of All Things Classic Bicycle, (the CR mothership website) click on French part makers and, eh Voila! You are correctomundo. Those are TA cranks, not Stronglight. The beautiful examples on the CR site have the bottoming threads; my Cinelli is drilled through, so I suspect they were tapped out from 14mm to 9/16" for the Campag pedals. Also my hunch is that since it does date from 1963 original sale, it did come with those mechs, but who could really know? Good eye spotting the spring hole! As to the brakes, those are Italian Universal brand cable hangers in there, no? I wonder if it came with Universal side-pulls at some point and was up-graded to those "superior" center-pull designs. (Oh, how the battle raged back then, eh? CP vs SP, arrrgh.)
I hung it back up and somebody who will restore this bike should own it. I fear I will not get around to it. If you came in late from your morning ride astride your Masi, here's the link again to the pics:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/
and what? NO Desimone owners out there? Speak up!
Thanks Riccardo Bulissimo Verdi, Nevaaaaaaaaaada. ( like a sheep would say it) and Cinelli's really rule. We all know that!