I am a bit confused over the top line Cinelli bikes. I had always heard
"SC" mentioned in connection with really desirable ones...now I find there
are both Super Corsa and Special Corsa models (Two SCs? How does one tell
them apart? Is the Special Corsa the more desirable of the two?) ...I
understand the Super Corsa may have been unchanged since 1948 or so? Yet
the company apparently changed hands in 1978 or so and was sold to the
Columbus Tubing Company? Then at some point ( '78?) the seat post size
changed from 26.4 mm and apparently the models with that earlier seat post
size are more desirable? The thickness of the tubing apparently changed?
The Company was again sold in 1997 to a company called Gruppo SpA? The
more recent Super Corsa bikes are not regarded as KOF, is this true? If so,
how recent...from the '70s or from the '90s?
I am hoping that some of the Cognoscenti that have been such an integral
part of my education on such matters will, once again, step up to the plate
and offer some enlightenment.
Thanks in advance,
Tom Sanders
Lansing, Mi USA