Mark Boral wrote:
> Charles,
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> You might not be aware that the panto style you refer to as
> "from later
> years" ("C"/clover/Ernesto's name) was available as early as '76.
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> Marc Boral
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> Long Beach, CA
And Charles responded:
Ok, fair enough, but the ones that most interest me are earlier yet...by the time Colnago Mexicos came with the later style ring, the older style ring was gone, far as I can tell...I have a couple of brochures from the period that seem to bear this out. I suspect the milling was expensive, and the later rings were cheaper to make.
I have a very interesting brochure of what appears to be the earliest Mexico...I had seen only later iterations of it. The one in the brochure I have, has some very neat pantographing...style-wise right in between the early Super Pantografata...which I think was gone by 1974, and the later Mexicos, which had the later rings...
So it seems anyway. I suspect they were changing stuff all the time. Maybe the two rings were available simultaneously for awhile. I recall more than a few different kinds of pantographing on '70s Colnagos... I remember seeing a Pantografata with milled brakes once, back over 25 years ago, but I've not seen a single sample of that since...
Charles Andrews
Los Angeles
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Boral [mailto:mbikealive@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 6:51 PM
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: Re: [CR]WTB: 1970s Colnago milled chainring