[CR]Really old Moser Bike and Cinelli world champion stripes

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From: "Michael Schmid" <schmidi@gaponline.de>
To: "'CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS'" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:17:59 +0100
In-Reply-To: <p06240845c2235df0b2e7@[10.0.1.20]>
Subject: [CR]Really old Moser Bike and Cinelli world champion stripes

Hello List, Yesterday I got a really old an wheathered light blue lightweight from one of my LBS decalled "Cicli Moser Trento". It is a entry level bike and i would say it was made in the fifties or sixties. It has a PIVO "death-stem" and Huret Svelto derailleur and Huret Shifters. Brakes are Altenburger sidepulls. The dropouts are stamped metal, not forged. This makes me believe it is not a high-end bike. As a unique feature it has crimped seat- and chain-stays, meaning those parts are profiled. The front Hub is a Atom with wingnuts, rear Hub is a later Normandy with QR. Chromed fork crown, nice lugs no chrome on the frame itself. The Frame bears a decal "Model Torino" and has the exact same rainbow (world champion) stripes on the fork and on the seat-tube as my 50ies Cinelli B model. Those stripes have the inscription "Champion du monde" but I also have seen the same ones saying "campione di monde".Until I found this bike I alwas presumed it was Francesco Moser who started selling bikes from Trento ant the end of the seventies. Does anybody know anything about a company called Moser building bikes way before Francesco came to fame? Was it probably his family, bearing in mind that Moser is not an unusual name in Trento, close to the german speaking part of Italy - South Tyrol?

One conclusion I can draw of that find is that the world champion stripes used by Cinelli were obviously not their own special design but something produced by a supplier for numerous brands and makers.

Moser Michael - who will post pictures of this bike soon - Schmid Oberammergau Germany Tel.: +49 8821 798790 Fax.:+49 8821 798791 mail: schmid@zunterer.com http://www.zunterer.com