I have a photo of the seat tube-less Laser courtesy of a reader from Japan
that attended a Laser get-together, it's the second from the left:
http://cinellionly.blogspot.com/
Angel Garcia Long Valley NJ
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Freek Faro <khun.freek@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 12:01 PM Subject: Re: [CR] Cinelli Laser To: Angel Garcia <veronaman@gmail.com> Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
*There seems to be quite a few variations of the Laser...*
Yes, the one without seattube in that Japanese bikeshop for instance. I couldn't post pictures, since it was on Facebook.
Freek Faro Rotterdam Netherlands
2011/2/5 Angel Garcia <veronaman@gmail.com>
The one in Dales photostream. the "fully aerodynamic", has the downtube
>
> shifters a bit more integrated into the downtube than George's bike; you
> can
> see how the downtube is sculpted out to fit the shifters.
>
> I happen to have a photo of the brake configuration, and Dale's photo,
> here:
>
>
> http://cinellionly.blogspot.com/
>
> There seems to be quite a few variations of the Laser...
>
> Angel Garcia
> Long Valley Nj
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: George Hollenberg <ghollmd@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [CR] Cinelli Laser
> To: oroboyz@aol.com
> Cc: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>
>
> *http://tinyurl.com/4ee927m
>
> Hi Dale:
> This is an image of Laser #007 possibly one of the earliest intact
> prototypes of the strada version remaining. It has Modolo Kronos brakes
> (the
> rear brake is in a shroud in back of the BB, IMHO one of the bike's most
> interesting features), SRecord crankset, but Shimano FD and RD's, Roval
> wheels with Campy skewers. Most of the rest is Cinelli. The leather which
> looks like it's from some rare beast is really just calf stamped with this
> design. Of course the notorious "suicide" pedals are sported.
> Amusingly, when I brought the bike from Europe it was confiscated in
> customs
> since the shipper had marked it simply as "laser" and customs was very
> suspicious to determine it was no more than a bike. This took them three
> weeks.
> The current question among some collectors is what degree of involvement
> Cinelli himself had in the realization of this bike. Like so many things in
> bike collecting, this question is probably best left in the obscurity in
> which Cinelli desired.
> Regards,
> George
> George Hollenberg MD
> CT, USA
> *
> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:36 AM, <oroboyz@aol.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I never realized that Cinelli mixed & matched components as on this
> > bike....
> >
> http://www.flickr.com/
> >
> >
> > Dale Brown
> > Greensboro, North Carolina USA
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> >
>
>
>
> --
> George
>
> George Hollenberg MD
> CT, USA