Filippo, from Italy, sends this photo of Gintautas Umaras, gold medalist in the men's 4km pursuit and team pursuit at the 1988 Olympic games in Seoul, Korea, riding a Cinelli Laser (perhaps made with Columbus SLX tubes).
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I believe this Laser is made from Columbus MultiShape tubing (MS), rather than from SLX. The MS was from Gilco Design and featured subtle profiling and shapes. The top tube had a "lemon-shaped" profile, the downtube was slightly oversized and had a sort of "aero" profile, but was designed to have the sharp edge facing forwards, the seat tube was very-subtly conical, being smaller at the top and taping to 28.6 mm at the bottom. The seat tube accepted a 25.0 post, rather than the then-standard 27.2. The left side chainstay was triangular in section and the right one was a high-oval profile. Seatstays were not specially-profiled.
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this one is now exhibited is Gintautas Umaras bicycle store in Vilnius, Lithuania
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