[CR]Colnago panto'd parts availability - was: colnago on ebay

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Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:06:48 +0200
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Thread-Topic: Colnago panto'd parts availability - was: colnago on ebay
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From: "Feeken, Dirk" <dirk.feeken@sap.com>
To: "c. andrews" <chasds@mindspring.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR]Colnago panto'd parts availability - was: colnago on ebay

>Anyone know anything
>about that? Could you buy individual panto'd parts new and
>install them yourself? I'm betting you could.
>
> Charles Andrews

You're right. The Bruegelmann catalogs of 1977 and 78 (largest bicycle dealer in Europe back then) offers not only Colnago (and Cinelli, Masi, Pogliaghi, de Rosa, Gianni Motta...) frames but lists individual parts in "Colnago Finish". Listed are saddles, T.T.T. stems, Campagnolo chain wheels, cranks, brakes and levers ("Mexico Style"), and seat pins. For example the cost of the Colnago Mexico crankset was 360DM compared to 235DM for the normal Campagnolo Record cranks. It is explicitely mentioned that the panto work is done by Colnago (and that the style changes frequently).

Dirk

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Dirk Feeken
Heidelberg
Germany