Re: [CR]ebay outing: cinelli badge

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:18:48 -0800
From: "Tam Pham" <terminaut@gmail.com>
To: chasds@mindspring.com
Subject: Re: [CR]ebay outing: cinelli badge
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I bought one of those to adorn my vintage Cinelli repair stand and it's actually sort of nice for miscellany use like that. I think of it as a "fancy sticker".

Tam Pham Huntington Beach, CA - USA

On 3/6/07, chasds@mindspring.com <chasds@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> wasting time I should be using to do something productive, I found this on
> ebay just now:
>
>
> http://ebay.com/<blah>
>
> Surely this did not originate with cinelli? It's some kind of asian
> knock-off, right? I never saw a Cinelli badge that looked like
> this. except the badge-decal itself. the metal headbadges never looked
> like this, right?
>
> The seller's description leaves the clear impression that this came out of
> the Cinelli operation. Too bad. Why lie about it? It's a cool
> knock-off. Although you'd never put it on a correct restoration I suppose.
>
> I wonder if Cinelli approved these. I hear all the big italian marques
> are coming down hard on copyright violators. Kucharik quit making clothing
> with the old logos on them for exactly that reason.
>
> Then again, maybe I missed the memo and this really is some kind of legit
> item..
>
> Charles "wasting time in the SoCali sunshine" Andrews
> SoCal