The yearly Cinelli sales numbers from the Cupertino Bike Shop/Spence Wolfe records , 1955-1977:
Total sold from 1955-1977
SC = 649
Mod. B = 79
Pista = 32
SC by year:
1954 = 0
1955 = 1
1956 = 1
1957 = 18
1958 = 15
1959 = 29
1960 = 26
1961 = 53
1962 = 31
1963 = 15
1964 = 19
1965 = 28
1966 = 25
1967 = 25
1968 = 18
1969 = 49
1970 = 67
1971 = 60
1972 = 71
1973 = 66
1974 = 13
1975 = 13
1976 = 4
1977 = 2
Mod B by year:
1954 = 0
1955 = 4
1956 = 9
1957 = 10
1958 = 7
1959 = 15
1960 = 3
1961 = 2
1962 = 3
1963 = 7
1964 = 9
1965 = 8
1966 = 2
1967 = No sales recorded from this point
Pista by year:
1954 = 0
1955 = 0
1956 = 1
1957 = 3
1958 = 1
1959 = 4
1960 = 0
1961 = 5
1962 = 0
1963 = 1
1964 = 4
1965 = 2
1966 = 4
1967 = 1
1968 = 3
1969 = 0
1970 = 1
1971 = 0
1972 = 1
1973 = 0
1974 = 1
1975 = No sales recorded from this point
Note: thanks to reader Wille for making a graph of the above data:
Spence and Lillian Wolfe at their Cupertino Bike Shop. They only dealt in quality lightweights and became West Coast (of U.S.A.) importers for Cinelli frames. Spence was also a bike mechanic of "guru" stature and collaborated with the Phil Wood company on their component designs.Read here about a 1969 Cinelli with "Alpine" Gearing by Spence Wolfe. A 1970 Cinelli ordered through the Cupertino Bike shop here.
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I wish we could identify how many of which sizes were sold.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting. This gives a hint about how many Cinellis that where sold in the US. Does anyone have any records from Kopps or any other shop in US and Canada?
ReplyDeleteI made a graph from the data above:
http://i.imgur.com/DM00Rl.png
What happened 1974? Did the boom collapse, or did another bike brand sell more units?
Thanks! I have added your graph to the body of the story.
ReplyDeleteYour web page says Spence ran Cupertino bikes in Cupertino until 1977. Actually he moved the shop to Asilomar near Carmel in 1975 or 76 before
ReplyDeleteselling it (when Rob Jensen moved it to Santa Clara before Vance Sprock moved it back to Cupertino). I bought wheels and parts from Spence in
the early 70s and one of his last Cinelli road frames in '76. He was such a nice guy that when the bottom bracket cable guide came off he soldered it back and sent the frame to CycleArt in SoCal for a new Imron
paint job (considerably nicer than the original) free of charge!