Hi Marc,
"4/10 Record" refers to the thickness of the tubing, not the number of tubes in the frame...
Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, California http://www.velo-retro.com (list of t-shirts on site)
Marc Boral wrote:
>
> Hi Dale and CR,
>
> Most of my knowledge about earlier Colnagos comes from older Colnago literature,
> but some comes from having 25-30 Colnagos in my collection :-). So assuming the
> literature is correct, here is little info about Mexico vs. Super.
>
> Mexico framesets first appeared in '75/'76. They were constructed of Columbus
> Record & SL tubing. My early catalog refers to "4/10 Record". This refers to
> the 10 tubes used to make a frameset, not including the steerer. I assume it
> means that four tubes are Record, and the rest are SL. The problem is that the
> catalog doesn't refer to which tubes are the Record tubes. (snip)