The Cinelli Registry (.com) is no longer operational. It has been replaced with the Cinelli Registry (.org). Same rules apply. Go to www.cinelliregistry.org.
Reminder: I invite you to contribute by sending in photographs of your Cinelli bike, illustrations, personal stories, and articles about Cinelli bikes and components. I can be contacted at veronaman@gmail.com
Monday, November 25, 2013
Friday, November 22, 2013
Golden Black Saddle
Thanks to a reader for the photos of his "Golden Black" saddle. The saddle was part of a set, see here for more information.
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Unicanitor Model 70 Campione del Mondo
For one reader a long search is over for a Unicanitor Model 70 Campione del Mondo:
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The first saddles based on a plastic form were to be called "Unica" but the name was already patented so Cinelli decided on "Unicanitor", a combination of "Unica", "Ni" for the first letters of the inventor-Mario Nieddu, and "Tor" for Nieddu's factory in Torino.
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The first saddles based on a plastic form were to be called "Unica" but the name was already patented so Cinelli decided on "Unicanitor", a combination of "Unica", "Ni" for the first letters of the inventor-Mario Nieddu, and "Tor" for Nieddu's factory in Torino.
Reminder: I invite you to contribute by sending in photographs of your Cinelli bike, illustrations, personal stories, and articles about Cinelli bikes and components. I can be contacted at veronaman@gmail.com
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Cinelli Laser "Mia"
The Cinelli Laser, the full carbon version, is now available as the "Laser Mia" (more details previously here). Photos of actual one (click on photos to enlarge):
Frameset is currently on ebay.
Reminder: I invite you to contribute by sending in photographs of your Cinelli bike, illustrations, personal stories, and articles about Cinelli bikes and components. I can be contacted at veronaman@gmail.com
Frameset is currently on ebay.
Reminder: I invite you to contribute by sending in photographs of your Cinelli bike, illustrations, personal stories, and articles about Cinelli bikes and components. I can be contacted at veronaman@gmail.com
Friday, November 8, 2013
U.S. Internaples & Cinelli
My thanks to reader Fillipo who sent two wonderful photographs of the U.S. Internaples cycling team in Naples from the 1950s. They all have Cinelli bikes (you can click on photos to enlarge):
The following photograph is of rider Mimi Milano with an SC frame. Filipo believes the photo is from 1953/1954; note the combination of the first generation logo type on downtube, fast-back seatpost, full sloping fork crown and four chrome rings on seat tube:
Futher information about the team, its riders, etc., is welcomed. What year do you think this frame is from?
Reminder: I invite you to contribute by sending in photographs of your Cinelli bike, illustrations, personal stories, and articles about Cinelli bikes and components. I can be contacted at veronaman@gmail.com
The following photograph is of rider Mimi Milano with an SC frame. Filipo believes the photo is from 1953/1954; note the combination of the first generation logo type on downtube, fast-back seatpost, full sloping fork crown and four chrome rings on seat tube:
Futher information about the team, its riders, etc., is welcomed. What year do you think this frame is from?
Reminder: I invite you to contribute by sending in photographs of your Cinelli bike, illustrations, personal stories, and articles about Cinelli bikes and components. I can be contacted at veronaman@gmail.com
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Laser Nostra Prototype, Part II
Part I
More from Cinelli about the Laser Nostra Protoype being auctioned by Sotheby (http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/null-n09014/lot.28.html):
Limited Edition Prototype Laser Nostra Cinelli bicycle set to go under the hammer at Jony & Marc’s (RED) Auction on November 23rd
Two of the world’s foremost design pioneers, Sir Jonathan Ive, KBE, and Marc Newson, CBE, have collaborated with musician and philanthropist Bono to organize a (RED) Auction celebrating the very best of design and innovation. Jony and Marc have spent the past year and a half curating the collection, which comprises objects from disciplines as diverse as space travel and lighting design to contemporary art and rare automobiles, all unified and distinguished by their excellence and innovation. Proceeds from the 23 November 2013 sale at Sotheby’s New York will benefit The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
The auction will feature icons of design selected by Jony and Marc, including a Cinelli Prototype “Laser Nostra” bicycle, singed by Cinelli President and bicycle designer, Antonio Colombo. This stunning, limited- edition bicycle was ridden to victory in a major competition: in 2011, American Rider Neil Bezdek won the Red Hook Criterium in Milan, the most famous fixed-gear competition in the world, riding this Laser Nostra prototype. The design of Cinelli’s Laser was ground-breaking at the time of its release in 1980.
Made to address a singular problem - making its rider the fastest on the track - it reflects the intense collaboration between designer Antonio Colombo and a team that included a frame builder, engineer, physiologists, coaches, and numerous champion riders. This prototype, with its famous Columbus Niobium steel tube and featuring a unique carbon fork, was created in 2011 for a special anniversary edition of 21 Laser bicycles released in 2012. This bicycle has been customised with old and new Columbus stickers.
"It's been a thrilling journey for Jony and me to curate this collection of pieces that celebrate extraordinary design that we love, that transcends all boundaries of time and place. Each object and the process of creating it conveys a rich set of human values, so it seems fitting that they should be auctioned with a different sense of human value in mind, to raise as much as possible to help people's lives today," said Marc Newson. “We'd like to thank our partners for their sincere generosity and for giving so gladly and willingly.”
The (RED) Auction collection goes on public exhibition at Sotheby’s New York beginning November, 18th.
Learn more about the second (RED) Auction through our Twitter hashtag #REDatSothebys
Reminder: I invite you to contribute by sending in photographs of your Cinelli bike, illustrations, personal stories, and articles about Cinelli bikes and components. I can be contacted at veronaman@gmail.com
More from Cinelli about the Laser Nostra Protoype being auctioned by Sotheby (http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/null-n09014/lot.28.html):
Limited Edition Prototype Laser Nostra Cinelli bicycle set to go under the hammer at Jony & Marc’s (RED) Auction on November 23rd
Two of the world’s foremost design pioneers, Sir Jonathan Ive, KBE, and Marc Newson, CBE, have collaborated with musician and philanthropist Bono to organize a (RED) Auction celebrating the very best of design and innovation. Jony and Marc have spent the past year and a half curating the collection, which comprises objects from disciplines as diverse as space travel and lighting design to contemporary art and rare automobiles, all unified and distinguished by their excellence and innovation. Proceeds from the 23 November 2013 sale at Sotheby’s New York will benefit The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
The auction will feature icons of design selected by Jony and Marc, including a Cinelli Prototype “Laser Nostra” bicycle, singed by Cinelli President and bicycle designer, Antonio Colombo. This stunning, limited- edition bicycle was ridden to victory in a major competition: in 2011, American Rider Neil Bezdek won the Red Hook Criterium in Milan, the most famous fixed-gear competition in the world, riding this Laser Nostra prototype. The design of Cinelli’s Laser was ground-breaking at the time of its release in 1980.
Made to address a singular problem - making its rider the fastest on the track - it reflects the intense collaboration between designer Antonio Colombo and a team that included a frame builder, engineer, physiologists, coaches, and numerous champion riders. This prototype, with its famous Columbus Niobium steel tube and featuring a unique carbon fork, was created in 2011 for a special anniversary edition of 21 Laser bicycles released in 2012. This bicycle has been customised with old and new Columbus stickers.
"It's been a thrilling journey for Jony and me to curate this collection of pieces that celebrate extraordinary design that we love, that transcends all boundaries of time and place. Each object and the process of creating it conveys a rich set of human values, so it seems fitting that they should be auctioned with a different sense of human value in mind, to raise as much as possible to help people's lives today," said Marc Newson. “We'd like to thank our partners for their sincere generosity and for giving so gladly and willingly.”
The (RED) Auction collection goes on public exhibition at Sotheby’s New York beginning November, 18th.
Learn more about the second (RED) Auction through our Twitter hashtag #REDatSothebys
Reminder: I invite you to contribute by sending in photographs of your Cinelli bike, illustrations, personal stories, and articles about Cinelli bikes and components. I can be contacted at veronaman@gmail.com
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
1950s Cinelli
Before going onto this bike we should first re-visit an earlier blog post which had this photo of a 1952 Vecel & Co. advertisement:
If you click on the image to enarge it you can clearly see that the fork has a spear shape to the side.
The following bike has the same fork, and the owner descroibes it as such:
CINELLI VINTAGE LIGHTWEIGHT RACING BIKE EARLY 1950s LUBELLA REAR TRIANGE TUBING ,HAS A STAMP IN THE LEFT CHAINSTAY IN THE FRAME,, MEANS DRAGONFLY? I THINK,
531 WAS USED AT THIS TIME, HARD TO TELL IF ITS REYNOLDS OR FALK,? COLUMBUS? SIMPLEX FRONT AND REAR DROPOUTS , FB LARGE FLANGE HUBS, NISI RIMS MATCHING TUBS HOLD AIR
RIDES WELL AS THEY ALL DO, CHAINRINGS ARE A BIT NEWER, ITS AN EARLY BIKE ,POSSABLEY ONE OF THE EARLIEST NON SEAT CLAMP MODELS
THEY DONT COME ALONG VERY OFTEN, I HAVE HAD IT FOR 4 YEARS, FROM A PRIVATE COLECTION 23 " CENTRE TO TOP OF SEAT TUBE, ITS THE ONLY WAY TO MEASURE A FRAME
22" TOP TUBE C TO C
GUTTI SPLINED CRANKSET WITH THE EXTRACTOR, CINELLI PISTA BARS AND EARLY CINELLI STEM, CHROME IS TIRED UNDER THE STEM,
FRAME WAS RESPAYED A FEW YERS AGO , NOT BY ME NO RUST ,OR DENTS, UNRIDDEN FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS,, TOOK IT ALL APART AND SERICED EVERYTINHG , ABOUT A YEAR AGO, SO READY TO RIDE
SHEFIELD PEDALS, GRAN SPORT REAR MECH, UNIVERSAL BRAKE STIRRUPS AND LEVERS.
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The following bike has the same fork, and the owner descroibes it as such:
CINELLI VINTAGE LIGHTWEIGHT RACING BIKE EARLY 1950s LUBELLA REAR TRIANGE TUBING ,HAS A STAMP IN THE LEFT CHAINSTAY IN THE FRAME,, MEANS DRAGONFLY? I THINK,
531 WAS USED AT THIS TIME, HARD TO TELL IF ITS REYNOLDS OR FALK,? COLUMBUS? SIMPLEX FRONT AND REAR DROPOUTS , FB LARGE FLANGE HUBS, NISI RIMS MATCHING TUBS HOLD AIR
RIDES WELL AS THEY ALL DO, CHAINRINGS ARE A BIT NEWER, ITS AN EARLY BIKE ,POSSABLEY ONE OF THE EARLIEST NON SEAT CLAMP MODELS
THEY DONT COME ALONG VERY OFTEN, I HAVE HAD IT FOR 4 YEARS, FROM A PRIVATE COLECTION 23 " CENTRE TO TOP OF SEAT TUBE, ITS THE ONLY WAY TO MEASURE A FRAME
22" TOP TUBE C TO C
GUTTI SPLINED CRANKSET WITH THE EXTRACTOR, CINELLI PISTA BARS AND EARLY CINELLI STEM, CHROME IS TIRED UNDER THE STEM,
FRAME WAS RESPAYED A FEW YERS AGO , NOT BY ME NO RUST ,OR DENTS, UNRIDDEN FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS,, TOOK IT ALL APART AND SERICED EVERYTINHG , ABOUT A YEAR AGO, SO READY TO RIDE
SHEFIELD PEDALS, GRAN SPORT REAR MECH, UNIVERSAL BRAKE STIRRUPS AND LEVERS.
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Cinelli Timeline
Chuck Schmidt, owner of Velo-Retro, has created the "The Original CINELLI Timeline,
A history of the highly-respected CINO CINELLI & C. company." It can be found here:
http://www.velo-retro.com/cinellitline.html
As he notes, "I would greatly appreciate any assistance you the reader can offer in updating this timeline as this is the only way the accuracy of this timeline can be improved. Chuck Schmidt "
We are happy to have contributed...
Reminder: I invite you to contribute by sending in photographs of your Cinelli bike, illustrations, personal stories, and articles about Cinelli bikes and components. I can be contacted at veronaman@gmail.com
Monday, November 4, 2013
Laser Nostra Prototype
This is the Laser "Nostra" prototype being auctioned at Sotheby; see http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/null-n09014/lot.28.html
For the record, the auction states:
A PROTOTYPE "LASER NOSTRA" BICYCLE
Signed by Cinelli President and bicycle designer Antonio Colombo for the (RED) Auction 2013.
Columbus Niobium steel and carbon fork
44 1/2 x 65 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches (175 x 105 x 25 cm)
Net weight: 16.5lbs (7.5 kg)
Produced by Cinelli, Italy (a division of Gruppo S.p.A.)
Columbus Niobium steel and carbon fork
44 1/2 x 65 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches (175 x 105 x 25 cm)
Net weight: 16.5lbs (7.5 kg)
Produced by Cinelli, Italy (a division of Gruppo S.p.A.)
The Laser "Nostra" was the very limited edition Laser in steel that became available in 2011. Some detailed photos of the display bike here in Cinelli Only. These were made by the framebuilder of the original Lasers, Andrea Pesenti.
addendum of November 6th: the Sotheby auction has been updated with this, correct, photo of the Nostra being auctioned:
Reminder: I invite you to contribute by sending in photographs of your Cinelli bike, illustrations, personal stories, and articles about Cinelli bikes and components. I can be contacted at veronaman@gmail.com