Cinetica

A nice Cinelli Cinetica is on ebay at this moment  but it has some issues, "the right side shifting lever cable guided probably dropped inside the frame, and it became not usable. I am not an engineer, I cannot repair it. The shifting cable don't come out from the frame, but the cable house is inside the frame."

Interestingly, the frame has no serial number, the seller speculates that it may have been a prototype. Size is given as 57.

You can find more Cinelli Cinetica information from previous blog posts, see the right column under Cinetica.

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Cinelli "Schuster" Super Corsa

This frame was recently sold as a "Vintage CINELLI Schuster Columbus SLX Frame & Fork Super Corsa".

There is not such a Cinelli bicycle.

It is known that Mr. Schuster, owner of the Schuster bicycle shop in Germany, had frames made by the Italian subcontractor Vetta that had "Schuster" pantographs on the fork crown and seat-stays. The lugs and BBs on these bikes were always Cinelli (Cinelli was at the time also in the business of selling framebuilding parts, lugs, bb, brake bridges, fork crowns, etc).

Also, you can clearly see that there isn't a Cinelli serial number.

Related stories:
Distinguishing a Cinelli from a Windsor
Distinguishing a Cinelli from a Raysport

I invite you to contribute by sending in photographs of your Cinelli bike, illustrations, personal stories, and articles about Cinelli bikes and components. Thanks for stopping by. I can be contacted at veronaman@gmail.com