One of Cinelli's framebuilders in the 1980s was Mario Camilotto, he appears here in a video. For several years he was the framebuilder of the Super Corsas.
After leaving Cinelli he built approximately 400 Camilotto frames. If you own a Camilotto frame you can register it using the contact information at www.mariocamilotto.com
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Mario Camilotto, a highly regarded framebuilder, also built Cinelli Super Corsa frames in the 1988 to 1991 period. He learned his craft from Pogliaghi.
Later he went on to build approximately 400 frames under his own name.
A registry has been started by him to identify the owners of these frames today; only five have been registered as of now. The registry is at www.mariocamilotto.com.
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
One of Cinelli's framebuilders in the 1980s was Mario Camilotto. A website dedicated to him has been launched: www.mariocamilotto.com. The bio for Mario states that be did the framebuilding for Cinelli, of primarily Super Corsas, from 1988 to 1991. I will translate some of the information contained in the website in the future.
Camilotto during the period he was framebuilding for Cinelli.
One of the 400 Camilotto frames made under his name.
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
In this recent article I mentioned that it has been said that, ".....in the 1980's the Cinelli Supercorsa was made by an experienced Milanese framebuilder by the name of Mario Camilotto. The workmanship on these models is quite beautiful perhaps even nicer than earlier models. I do not know why Signor Camilotto stopped building for Cinelli and why later frames were made by Losa, also in Milan."
CINELLI ONLY reader Michael was kind enough to send in the above photo showing Mario Camilotto at work, surrounded by framebuilding equipment, tubesets, frames, and wearing a Cinelli T-shirt. Michael wrote, "The photo is of Mario Camilotto in the Cinelli factory of Columbus Steel in Milan. The only other thing I have heard about Camilotto is that he personally built every Cinelli Supercorsa from the time that Columbus bought the Cinelli brand, until Losa took over (in the early 90's?). The workmanship on my 1984 is quite clean."
Through a lead from another reader I learned that there were some video segments of Mario Camilotto at work embedded in a youtube video of Britsh framebuilders, the Taylor Brothers. Beginning at 4:40 in the video Camilotto can be seen several times building the "Ferrari" of bicycles. Definitely worth a look:
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I invite you to contribute by sending in photographs of your Cinelli bike, illustrations, personal stories, and articles about Cinelli bikes and components."
