Patrick Leclerc in the Cinelli Team

Announcement from Cinelli, November 9, 2010:

"Cinelli is pleased to announce today the arrival of Patrick Leclerc in the Cinelli team. Patrick, here photographed at the Cinelli HQ with Antonio Colombo, President, Paolo Erzegovesi, CEO and Fabrizio Aghito, Vice President, will assume the role of Product Manager and be responsible for relationships with all Cinelli’s international manufacturers. We are sure that the addition of an extremely experienced Product Manager such as Patrick with his significant achievements in the sector (outlined below) will only further facilitate the great growth that Cinelli is undergoing at present.

-Patrick has been involved in the bike industry for more than 10 years. He started as a bike mechanic for numbers of years. Then in 1999 worked on the road as technical representative for EGS (Syncro-Shift). He then worked for 3 major Canadian bike companies rising to the position of Pavement Bike Product Manager at Rocky Moutain. Of course he still rides as often as possible between all the trips.-

We are sure that this is the beginning of a long and fortuitous relationship between Patrick and Cinelli and look forward to sharing some great success in the world of innovative cycling."


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Cinelli Genuine Merchandise Now Available Worldwide

Cinelli and Ciclismo Totale have officially introduced the Cinelli Genuine Merchandise project. The project is a collaboration between the Milan brand and the Turin-based Ciclismo Totale in which the latter will take care of all merchansing and e-commerce.

Cinelli Genuine Merchandise is their new communication tool to promote Cinelli design and support the events that they love the most. In addition to the popular traditional hats and t-shirts that are already on the market are limited editions produced in collaboration with friends from California Mash, the European Championships, Cycle Messnger World Championships and the 10th nniversary of the Bicycle Film Festival. The collection, made entirely in Italy using the highest quality fabrics, is available online at Total Cycling (www.ciclismototale.it; or you can land on the same page by navigating www.cinelli.it).

Products will be available for purchase using paypal and will be mailed by worldwide by Posteitaliane.

Photos: examples of products

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Cinelli Winged Logo Design

The Cinelli winged logo was designed in 1978 by Italo Lupi



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Laser in Columbus MAX

Note: Laser model; different fork than this Cinelli Laser with MAX

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1960 Rome Olympic Champions Celebrated

The EICMA brought together nine Olympic gold medal winners at the public opening of the Milan bicycle fair yesterday. It was a remembrance of 1960 the Olympic Games held in Rome where the Italian national cycling squad took six gold medals.

Present were gold medalists from the Italian time-trial team of Tony Bailetti, Giacomo Fornoni and Livio Trapè (Ottavio Cogliati has passed away); Sante Gaiardoni, who took the victory in both the 1km time-trial and sprint races; Sergio Bianchetto and Giuseppe Beghetto the winning pair on the tandem track sprint; and team-pursuit champions Marino Vigna, Luigi Arienti and Franco Testa (Mario Vallotto has passed away). The riders are wearing Olympic shirts in the photo above.

The gold-medal-winning, Cinelli-riding, Franco Testa, Mario Vallotto, Luigi Arienti and Mario Vigna in Rome on August 28, 1960. They set an Olympic record of 4:28:88 in the semifinals.


Also attending were Paolo Bettini, the latest Italian Olympic champion and current Italian Cycling Technical Director, and former champions Felice Gimondi and Vittorio Adorni. Adorni also stepped on the stage together with the nine main protagonists of the event, for a group shot wearing the 5-circled Olympic champion white jersey, worn with pride and emotion by everyone. Gimondi and Adorni at the celebration:

A very emotional moment occurred when Fiorenzo Magni - former cycling champion, currently a successful businessman - who will be 90 years old in a few days, took the floor: “I am turning 90, but not feeling like it. I would like to cross the 100 hundred line and keep working like I do.” Journalist Marino Bartoletti, Paolo Bettini, and Vittorio Adorni with Fiorenzo Magni:

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Laser in Columbus MAX

This is the first Columbus MAX Cinelli Laser I have seen. Note how the seatpost is inserted into the seat tube through the top tube, and how the chain stays are attached. This bike was photographed in Japan.

Photos by Cycle Traders; click to enlarge

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1963 Cinelli SC

This 1963 Cinelli (serial number 1193), owned by David White, was imported through Spence Wolf's Cupertino (California) bike shop. It includes a number of rare items -- an early Wolf "Alpine" rear derailleur adpatation on a Campy Record; a TA Criterium crank; MAFAC Top 63 brakes; Paturaud toe clips; Mephisto clincher rims.

Photos: click to enlarge

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