Ask a current Italian master art builder Antonio Mondonico about Ernesto
Colnago..."a genius a great champion of industry"(translated). Ask his son
Mauro (fluent in English) "P T Barnum comes to mind". My humble opinion.
Very fine mass production bicycles, nothing build in the last 20 years
should be considered worthy of becoming classic.
T. Shaw
Santa Clara, California
> From: The Maaslands <TheMaaslands@comcast.net>
> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 10:15:05 -0500
> To: Classic Rendezvous <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Subject: I: [CR]picasso vs. confente
>
> 50,000 frames is likely less than 4 years production of bikes with the
> Colnago name (12-14K per year according to the last numbers that I heard!)
> Compare this to perhaps the total production of Gios.
>
> Steven Maasland
> Moorestown, NJ
>
>
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> From: r garni <crispyflotilla@yahoo.com>
> To: David Bilenkey <dbilenkey@sympatico.ca>;
> <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 7:56 AM
> Subject: [CR]picasso vs. confente
>
>
>> of course, the best thing to do, from a selfish point
>> of view, is to live NOT like confente, but like
>> picasso: i.e., until you are 90, and producing,
>> according to the biographies, 50,000 pieces of work.
>>
>> I won't get into the countless beautiful lovers thing.
>>
>> there are those (such as PP) who somehow can finesse
>> the extraordinary prices at market and still produce a
>> prolific amount of pieces.
>>
>> I wonder who the equivilient in the bike world might
>> be. were one to say colnago, an artist or bicycle
>> person might argue that the difference is that picasso
>> never (or less often?) produced work for the sake of
>> the market or production efficiency, as brian might
>> suggest. I don't know.
>>
>> 50,000. if you do the math on that, it's, well, a lot
>> of work, every day. even for a 90 year old guy!
>>
>> ricky garni
>> carrboro, nc
>>
>>
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