Tom Dalton wrote:
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> If this was a basic racing bike, with normal NR parts, I'd say that Ernesto certainly expected it to be riden. And, in some way, that might support an argument that it should be ridden today. But this bike is not a race bike, it is a show bike. In some ways that makes it really special, and it certainly makes it rare, and in some ways that sissifies it, makes it the analog of a "pimped ride" not a racecar. Removal of the anodizing on some alloy parts, addition of rust-prone chromed lugs, all the little cutouts and drillings for dirt to build up... this bike is very form over function. For good or for bad, looking cool, not going fast, is it's raison d'etre.
Not a race bike? Many pro racing bikes over the past decades had chrome head lugs, drilled parts, pantographed parts.
This bike was a model that Colnago sold. Is it a SHOW bike or a show bike, meaning was it a one off made for displaying at trade shows or was it a Mod. Colnago Super Pantografata picked at random (or hand picked?) and shown at the trade show?