Gee Dale, my friend Bertrum built up for his wife an early Lotus which has stunning chrome lugs and chrome chainstays, beautiful cut-out lugs, very nice design. Which brings me to wonder, there must have been better Lotus frames as well as the straight piped Lotus frames as well. I agree on the Cinelli designed part, That probably doesn't amount to a hill of beans, similar in respect to looking at a current "insert brand name bike" and seeing the Made in China or Made in Taiwan sticker with the "designed in the USA" sticker. I know the Lotus I saw with the lugs and chainstays sure is pretty. It came from Brand's bike shop of New York where my friend resides.So, Were there indeed better or high end framesets from this company?
Walt Skrzypek
Falls Creek, Pa
>From: OROBOYZ@aol.com
>To: pdscott@gte.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: Re: [CR]Lotus Cinelli Designed bike all super record
>Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 22:06:35 EST
>
>In a message dated 12/20/00 7:59:34 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>pdscott@gte.net
>writes:
>
><< What would a lotus super record equipped bike be worth? It was supposed
>to
>be designed by cinelli. It is a 50cm CC! Syy blue paint chrome stays and
>chrome frok crown. >>
>
>In my opinion, the sum of it's parts.. I am afraid Lotus-
>designed-by-Cinelli
>is about like Centurion-designed-by-Cinelli.
>
>Dale Brown