Re: [CR] Second time's a charm

(Example: Production Builders:LeJeune)

To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 23:21:18 -0800 (PST)
From: donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: [CR] Second time's a charm


Jon,

I don't know about you, but whenever I find a beater frame with no decals and I just cannot figure out what it is - even with an ashtabula crank - I always mutter to myself, "Colnago" and repaint it as a colnago with the imitation decals that are so plentiful and cheap that you can't spit without hitting them on ebay at some repro-decalshop.

I figure those Colnago guys have giant brains because they can match all those pantographica parts to the exact year and model of the bike, those giant brains must have some extra neurons to figure out what this fake Colnago is, don't they? Don't they? Well ???

Seriously, though, it does seem that the UK is a source of endless fake colnagos. I see something from the UK with "COLNAGO SUPER" decals plastered all over it almost every other week. I suppose that in the 70's and 80's it was "The thing to do" among young males of age less than 22 or something ...

Nevertheless, Glorias are cool bikes - almost as cool as those super-chicken italian bikes that Steve Maasland likes to rave about ("Galmozzi? I forget") - and this frame has the Gloria seat clamp which can sell for almost the 500 pound asking price alone, and the holes in the down tube can be repaired, so I figure the new owner has a very cool Gloria from the Cambio-Corsa era, and they will undoubtedly enjoy it very much ...

- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA, USA