Tom Ritchey's Story, incl. "Cinelli Not That Impressive Inside"

Tom Ritchey's 40 Year Ride a Mountain Biking video by thebaker


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Centurion Cinelli Project, Part II

This blog entry adds photos of another Centurion "Cinelli Project", this one in silver. The first I became aware of one these was in this previous post.

Another reader wrote about these frames, "A guy who worked at a Centurion dealer in California in the 80's said that these prototypes were brought to dealers to try to drum up orders for the coming Equipe."

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Cinelli SC, early 1970s, no. 1821

Many photos here.For sale at the time of this post.

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Cinelli 1973 SC, no. 2289

Georg's newly discovered 1973 Cinelli SC. Interestingly, it has the BB cutouts of the Brugelmann  "Leggerissimo" model;  this is the second one I've seen with the BB drilled pattern that is not in the yellow/red that distinguishes the Brugelmann Leggerissimo. The first is here, with the serial number of 2238 (note that it however does not have chromed lugs).  This blue CInelli was sold by Sport Altmann in Germany.

Photos of a Brugelmann Leggerissimo, for reference, here.

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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

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Cinelli Unica

I don't have much information about the steel, or aluminum, Cinelli Unica models. I think in about 2000 the switch was made from steel to aluminum. If you have any catalogs or information send me a note.

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