re: [CR]FS: 60's Cinelli SC -some notes

(Example: History:Norris Lockley)

Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 14:07:41 -0400
From: "HM & SS Sachs" <sachs@erols.com>
To: rbulissimo-bike@yahoo.com, Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: re: [CR]FS: 60's Cinelli SC -some notes


"Riccardo Bulissimo" <snip> posted pictures of his 1960s Cinelli SC at http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/rbulis@sbcglobal.net/my_photos

While you are visiting my pictures at yahoo, I put up some of my 60 cm 1960 Cinelli SC, which after two decades in my garage is still looking for a restoration. Don't blame me for the condition of those lugs, it's been in arrested decay like that since I bought it. Anyway, it has those uber rare steel Cinelli bars & stem, the old logo hbar shifters, the dovetail Stronglight (semi?) cotterless crank and a chrome plated stoppered record front derailleur, tied & soldered wheels (front? why?) and Top 63's among other goodies. As pictured, $1500 and I will pay to ship it to the US48 or knock off $50 if you want to retrieve it. It came from Cupertino and it is on the C registry/ Wolf logs.

+++++++++++++++++++ The bike has patina worthy of some of my own best examples, and there are some interesting arcana that may be of interest in the photos.

Photo 4, the RD area, clearly shows (a bit more than half of)a small hole in the dropout, just at the base of the upper pivot assembly. This was the anchor for the spring of the infamous Campy "Sport" single-pulley derailleur. I have been told that it was discontinued about 1961, but it may have persisted in stocks for a while later. I would guess that the "steel" Record is not original, but could be wrong.

Photo 5 - I believe that the cranks are TA, never saw that design sold by Stronglight (but we learn new things daily).

Almost breathtaking to see the Top 63 brakes and the TA cranks, which I've hardly ever seen, much less together.

Good luck!

harvey sachs
mcLean va