This is the more correct version of the memory I had of Clapton getting a new bike (20 years ago! Man we're gettin' old, and my memory's going) -- and Dave Martinez said he remembered it from Bicycle Guide, as well. So why was I thinking Ernesto Colnago? - Because he presented a new full-Campy Colnago to the Pope. The Pope. . . Clapton. Hmmmm. . .
Kyle Brooks
Akron, OH
Last year I wrote a blog about Clapton's Cinelli obsession, with some links to some photos of Clapton hisself 'con Cinelli': http://retroride.blogspot.com/
http://retroride.blogspot.com
http://www.outside-the-tent.blogspot.com/
Clapton is apparently a big Cinelli fan -- page through that same blog some more and you'll find more evidence:
http://blog.honeyee.com/
http://blog.honeyee.com/
http://blog.honeyee.com/
on some of these pages, you might have to scroll down a couple pictures to see the bikes.
Thing is, I remember reading years ago (like, 20 years) in one of the cycling magazines -- possibly Bicycling, but more likely, Bicycle Guide (which I liked infinitely better, and subscribed to, and miss a lot) -- that Clapton was big into cycling and there was this photo of him taking delivery of a new bike. I don't have the magazine anymore, but I seem to remember that the bike was a new Colnago with the full Campagnolo SR gruppo, and he was taking the bike from Sr. Colnago himself. The article mentioned that growing up he had ambitions to be a bicycle racer, but the music became the bigger deal for him.
cool stuff
Kyle Brooks Akron, OH
> [Original Message]
> From: Tam Pham <terminaut@gmail.com>
> To: CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Date: 7/29/2007 5:23:56 PM
> Subject: [CR]Eric Clapton is a vintage Cinelli / Unica Nitor fan?
>
> By cosmic coincidence (*1), I stumbled onto this page:
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> http://blog.honeyee.com/
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> Check out the 4th photo down on the blog entry from July 23rd!
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> Tam Pham
> Huntington Beach, CA - USA
>
> *1 - I believe I've fondled that exact saddle...
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