Re: [CR] cinelli pista on ebay

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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:49:52 -0700
From: "John Siemsen" <velorosso@flash.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR] cinelli pista on ebay


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John Siemsen
Portland, Oregon, USA


--- On Wed, 8/19/09, John Siemsen wrote:


> From: John Siemsen <velorosso@flash.net>

\r?\n> Subject: Re: [CR] cinelli pista on ebay

\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

\r?\n> Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 10:49 PM

\r?\n> I have a Cinelli Pista interestingly

\r?\n> modified for road.  Took it to Velo Rendezvous a while

\r?\n> back.  Several, including Brian Baylis and Richard

\r?\n> Bulis (?? from Reno) thought it was 1960's.  No holes

\r?\n> in the lugs, but similar shape lugs as ebay Pista, brass

\r?\n> headbadge.  Mine has been refinished in chrome, so no

\r?\n> original finish to go by.  And the serial number, well,

\r?\n> apparently no rhyme in that...

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\r?\n> Message: 8

\r?\n> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:32:07 -0700

\r?\n> From: Charles Andrews <chasds@mindspring.com>

\r?\n> Subject: Re: [CR] cinelli pista on ebay

\r?\n> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

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\r?\n> I had a couple of questions for Cinelli-philes about this

\r?\n> bike, outed by Ken Sanford:

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\r?\n> http://ebay.com/<blah>

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\r?\n> I think Edward Brooks had it right, this is a 70s

\r?\n> bike.  I was under the impression that earlier cinelli

\r?\n> track bikes had a different lug, without holes in them, and

\r?\n> this bike has the later silver-finish headbadge.  Older

\r?\n> ones have the brass badge, yes?  nice bike, but not

\r?\n> 1960s, I'm thinking.

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\r?\n> I know just enough about Cinellis to be dangerous...and I

\r?\n> give Edward Brooks all respect for not being apoplectic that

\r?\n> the seller is trying to get 4 times what he originally sold

\r?\n> it for...

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\r?\n> Charles Andrews

\r?\n> Los Angeles