Re: [CR]Help with a Colnago ID: still 1981?

(Example: Framebuilders:Tony Beek)

From: "bradford stockwell" <bstockwell@hotmail.com>
To: mbikealive@dslextreme.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Help with a Colnago ID: still 1981?
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 01:16:56 +0000


>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.

Brad Stockwell
Palo Alto