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Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Womes's City Bike
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Monday, May 9, 2016
Pista
The following Pista is for sale; contact me and I will forward your inquiry to the seller located in Italy. Pre-circa 1968, 57x57cm, unrestored.Serial 4287.
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Friday, April 22, 2016
Nemo Tig
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Speciale Corsa, 1960s
Thanks to Elvezio for photos of his Speciale Corsa labeled Cinelli with front fender from the 1960s.
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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
Saturday, April 9, 2016
Laser
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Sunday, April 3, 2016
Piccolo
The Cinelli for children, the Piccolo model, appeared in this catalog. Here is an example of one in size 44cm. It appears to have the old style logo in the oval on the downtube (as seen here), and has the chrome bands on the seat tube. Photographed in the "as found" state and equipped with Magistroni crankset, Gian Robert rear derailleur, Simplex shifter, Cinelli Milano stem, and NISI rims
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Bike Stand
A reader writes, "I bought 5 all chrome double bike stands from a bike shop in the north of England that was closing down, they all have Cinelli Milano decals on them. The hooks are designed to support steel diameter horizontal top tubes. The owner said he bought them from Italy in the 1970s or 1980s."
Anyone familiar with these? Leave a comment.
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Saturday, March 19, 2016
1946 Cinelli
This frame was purchased in Firenze in 1946. It was equipped with Simplex Champion du Monde. The frame is stamped with 5 on the fork and bottom bracket, and with 5568 on the rear of the seat tube. There is an attempt to restore the colors in the headbadge.
Thank you Fabio.
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
Windsor
We have a blog entry on the subject of how to distinguish a Cinelli from a Mexican made look a like Windsor, story here.
We recently received the following from Daniel Jansen Torres:
"I would like to introduce myself as the person who wrote the article on the Windsor Pro bikes at the Classic Rendenvous website. I did attend law school in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico (Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara) from 1972 to 1978 and it was during the last three years I became a member of that university's semi-pro cycling team (TECOS).
Our team at one point was ranked 3rd in North America as the best team in this category by the UCI. Our team rode both Benottos and until the last years 1975-1976 started riding these bicycles. Acer-Mex, who was the the company that built these bikes, sold them in select stores in Mexico and in particular in Guadalajara by "BICICLETAS ZAPOPAN".
In 1976 I purchased my Windsor thru this store but with a special discount because of my association with my university. The cost was $8700.00 pesos which was about $560.00 US dollars. Because the store did not have my size, my order was sent to Mexico City to have my bike made. Our university also had bought six track bikes that were also on order. It was during this period that myself, our trainer and other members of the team, went to Mexico City to be measured for the frames. We did meet the manager of the Windsor division that made the frames whose name was Remo Vechii. We got a tour of the factory and were amazed by the huge numbers of bikes being built for both the domestic and export markets. These were not the racing bikes, but regular bicycles. After being measured we were given a time frame for the bikes to be sent to Guadalajara.
Back then I did not know of Cinelli's or Colnago's, etc., or any other bike brands. After many years I started to find out more on these bikes and found out that the similarities were not just a coincidence, but a marketing move by Acer-Mex to get recognition in the higher end market. There was in fact a DEAL between Cinelli and the Mexican company to build these bikes almost the same as Italian Cinelli's but with different changes such as the fork, lugs,seat post diameter etc.
One thing I can say is that the Mexican Windsor Pro bicycles were not knock offs as they had the blessing of Cinelli. You have to remember that it was during this time that the Japanese were invading the bike market with very good bikes and that for the Mexican market to survive they struck a deal with this European company to build bikes.The Italians were also was looking for outlets to sell their bikes to compete with the Japanese. As a matter of fact Cinelli does have a factory in Mexico that sells recreational and some mountain bikes."
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
We recently received the following from Daniel Jansen Torres:
"I would like to introduce myself as the person who wrote the article on the Windsor Pro bikes at the Classic Rendenvous website. I did attend law school in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico (Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara) from 1972 to 1978 and it was during the last three years I became a member of that university's semi-pro cycling team (TECOS).
Our team at one point was ranked 3rd in North America as the best team in this category by the UCI. Our team rode both Benottos and until the last years 1975-1976 started riding these bicycles. Acer-Mex, who was the the company that built these bikes, sold them in select stores in Mexico and in particular in Guadalajara by "BICICLETAS ZAPOPAN".
In 1976 I purchased my Windsor thru this store but with a special discount because of my association with my university. The cost was $8700.00 pesos which was about $560.00 US dollars. Because the store did not have my size, my order was sent to Mexico City to have my bike made. Our university also had bought six track bikes that were also on order. It was during this period that myself, our trainer and other members of the team, went to Mexico City to be measured for the frames. We did meet the manager of the Windsor division that made the frames whose name was Remo Vechii. We got a tour of the factory and were amazed by the huge numbers of bikes being built for both the domestic and export markets. These were not the racing bikes, but regular bicycles. After being measured we were given a time frame for the bikes to be sent to Guadalajara.
Back then I did not know of Cinelli's or Colnago's, etc., or any other bike brands. After many years I started to find out more on these bikes and found out that the similarities were not just a coincidence, but a marketing move by Acer-Mex to get recognition in the higher end market. There was in fact a DEAL between Cinelli and the Mexican company to build these bikes almost the same as Italian Cinelli's but with different changes such as the fork, lugs,seat post diameter etc.
One thing I can say is that the Mexican Windsor Pro bicycles were not knock offs as they had the blessing of Cinelli. You have to remember that it was during this time that the Japanese were invading the bike market with very good bikes and that for the Mexican market to survive they struck a deal with this European company to build bikes.The Italians were also was looking for outlets to sell their bikes to compete with the Japanese. As a matter of fact Cinelli does have a factory in Mexico that sells recreational and some mountain bikes."
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Monday, February 29, 2016
Stayer Stem
Fabio sends photos of his Cinelli-Milano stayer stem with these comments attached:
"As you know, the classic stayer stem has crest logo, not the oval logo. Also as you said, the classic stayer has the knurling. The oval logo that appears is not the earliest oval logo. The earliest logos say "FIRENZE" instead of "MILANO", or the earliest logo says "C.CINELLI" instead of "CINELLI", or the earliest logos are football-shaped, instead of oval. So, I believe that is a late 50's - early 70's logo. That's the same time that the classic stayer stem was made, so my belief is that this was a custom, or special made stem by Cinelli for a special customer, or for the UVI."
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"As you know, the classic stayer stem has crest logo, not the oval logo. Also as you said, the classic stayer has the knurling. The oval logo that appears is not the earliest oval logo. The earliest logos say "FIRENZE" instead of "MILANO", or the earliest logo says "C.CINELLI" instead of "CINELLI", or the earliest logos are football-shaped, instead of oval. So, I believe that is a late 50's - early 70's logo. That's the same time that the classic stayer stem was made, so my belief is that this was a custom, or special made stem by Cinelli for a special customer, or for the UVI."
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Friday, February 26, 2016
Brügelmann
The Radsporthaus Brügelmann shop in Frankfurt was a very important Cinelli dealer. The "Leggerissimo" model in yellow and red was made by Cinelli expressly at the request of the Brügelmann brothers. This photo is of the Brügelmann brothers racing Cinelli pista bicycles.
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