Thanks for the info thus supplied, when I got home from work tonight, I took a better look at the bike (I got it on my lunch hour), and here's more info for those that wanted to know:
It a Super Special, not strada. The columbus sticker is foil. There are
diamond cutouts in the top of the all lugs, and in the top tang of the bb,
and there are two cool cutouts in the bb, kinda of shaped like a "D". There
are 2 diamond cutouts in the reinforcing tangs on the forks: all cutouts are
painted light yellow, the frame is a light metallic green. It is 63 cm, i
guess c to c, but I have not measured it. The NR cranks are 177.5, and the
pedals are the SL type, the black cages do not have any cleat wear at all,
and there are no pedal scrapes on the cranks or pedals. There is a light
veneer of rust on some chrome parts. Oddly, the front wheel is built with 15
guage Alpina stainless spokes, the rear is built with rustless spokes, not
stainless steel! Both rims have "Cerchio Fiamme" red label stickers on them,
tires are shot and cracked. The rims are dusty and need polishing but have
no wear on the sidewalls. The bar is a Cinelli with Giro di Italia
engraving, and the stem a ttt.
Very nice bike, don't quite know what I am going to do with it yet (maybe
chop out 10 cm to make it a 53, just kidding)
Any more info on this bike is appreciated. BTW, the sticker on the left
chainstay says "by Torresini" and while the bike looks similar to the brown
one on the CR web site, the lug work is finer, the headlugs are not chrome,
the seatstay tops are fluted.
Mark
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