Re: [CR]eBay Cinelli???

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From: "Feeken, Dirk" <dirk.feeken@sap.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]eBay Cinelli???
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 01:30:31 +0100

Look at

http://www.cinelli.it/eng/chi_siamo/desiderio/

-> 1980

Dirk

Dirk Feeken Heidelberg Germany

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Subject: I: [CR]eBay Cinelli??? Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 19:17:30 -0500

David wrote:
> Ok, so that's sort of what I thought it said.
>
> I cannot in anyway believe that this bike was made in the seventies. If it
> was made for the Olympics I'd say it'd have to have been 1984 or 1980 at the
> earliest. But I'd bet '84. Anyone care to comment?

It looks very similar to the bike used by the Dane Hans Henrik Oersted for his hour record attempts. He set a low altitude record in 1985 on such a bike and perhaps used it in his attempt in Mexico in 1979 too. I can't be sure of that. 1972 is most definitely not correct.

Steven Maasland
Moorestown, NJ