Re: [CR]bent colnago?

(Example: Framebuilders:Alberto Masi)

From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]bent colnago?
References: <Springmail.0994.1037761527.0.60862100@webmail.atl.earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 19:17:03 -0700

chasds@mindspring.com wrote:
>
> Does it look to anyone else here like this colnago on ebay has suffered
> front-end damage?
>
> http://ebay.com/<blah>
>
> the head-tube angle seems much steeper than the seat-tube angle, which is not
> my experience with Supers from the early 80s; even allowing for custom
> manufacture, it still seems very steep..and there appears to be a bulge just
> below the dt head-lug point, but the photo is blurry enough that it might just
> be a trick of the pixels...
>
> I'm not bidding on it, just wondering...
>
> Charles "have too many Colnagos as it is" Andrews
> SoCal

It is impossible to judge a bike's geometry from a photograph due to parallax. (How's that for an unequivocal statement?)

Chuck Schmidt SoPas, SoCal

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