So the serial # M89, and the top of the BB cable guides don't lend any information to the age determination?
David Bilenkey Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
> -----Original Message-----
> From: classicrendezvous-admin@bikelist.org
> [mailto:classicrendezvous-admin@bikelist.org]On Behalf Of Chuck Schmidt
> Sent: June 19, 2002 11:33 PM
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: Re: [CR]Help with a Colnago ID: still 1981?
>
>
> Brad Stockwell wrote:
> >
> > >I don't believe '80/1 had longpoint lugs like David's has.
> Longpoints are
> > >a '70's indicator.
> >
> > SEATSTAY CAPS GO FROM FLUTED TO LABELED IN 1981?
> >
> > On page 99 of the August 1980 issue of BICYCLING!, there was a
> roadtest of
> > the Colnago Super written by Michael Kolin (famed co-author of
> the 'Custom
> > Bike Book').
> >
> > This roadtest shows a picture of a Colnago Super with fluted
> seat-stay caps
> > and just to put a point on it the caption below the picture
> states: "Colnago
> > uses fluted seatstay caps, an allen key seatpost binder bolt
> and brazed on
> > cable guides."
> >
> > So I'm figuring that Colnago changed from fluted-seatstay-caps to
> > flat-caps-with-"Colnago"-molded-into-them (like on David's
> bike!)sometime
> > between mid 1980 and the print date of the Summer '81
> Bikecology catalog.
>
> I have what I think is a 1981 Colnago Super. It has straight seat stays
> (no taper and not biconical) with _flutted_ caps with "COLNAGO" panto'd
> in them.
>
> It also has the semi-sloping fork crown with flower and Colnago
> panto'd/cast in the top. Full chrome fork and no chrome on the frame.
> One clover panto'd in the lower head lug point.
>
> My understanding is that 1981 was the first year of pantographed seat
> stay cap (concave) and the last year of the semi-sloping fork crown.
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> SoPas, SoCal