Re: [CR] Cinelli B lore

This may be a rehash for some, but Viktor Kapitonov won the road race at the 1960 Rome Olympics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoHAchDdAAs&feature=player_embedded (helmets? who needs a helmet, other than maybe the one rider being carried off bodily)

and the story I've read elsewhere is that the soviet team rode cinelli B's. They visited Cinelli on the way home, and all were given Supercorsas -- the story being that Cinelli didn't want the world to know that it was possible to get a gold medal on the second-tier bike.

As I recall, in the mid-80's Kopp's Cycle in Princeton, NJ sold quite a few of them. Dick Swan told people who wanted a color other than red that the color didn't make the bike go any faster.

- Joel Niemi / Snohomish, Washington, USA