[CR]fake colnago on ebay?

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From: "c. andrews" <chasds@mindspring.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:05:50 -0700
Subject: [CR]fake colnago on ebay?

Garth wrote:

Ebay has been notified that a Colnago listed as #320027843492 is a
>> counterfeit. Other CR members have contacted Ebay in the past notifying
>> them that a particular listing is a duplicate from a previous listing.
>> I don't know why they are so slow in this case or in past cases. It

Brandon Ives responded to the effect that the bike in question might be a Colnago.

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If that's a Colnago, it's unlike any I've ever seen, new or old. If it is something else, someone went to a great deal of trouble to make a bike that is so obviously not a Colnago otherwise, look like one. Which seems like a fool's game. That's a pretty elaborate paint-job, and it looks professionally done. If I took a frame to a good painter and they were willing to do the job at all, they'd charge me well over a grand for that. I suppose it could be an amateur job done very well, but from the look of it, I doubt it.

So, maybe it is, and maybe it isn't, but if it is a Colnago, it's some lower-line job.

Charles "I really should have been more careful sniping that Colnago tandem, ya know?" Andrews SoCal

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