no, wrong assumption. there's a colnago shown in the article titled, "The Bikes the Stars Ride" in a 71 Bicycling magazine. the h.t decal is oval and says, "Colnago", and there are some Olympic rings if memory serves. the article also has a merckx's faema masi, bitossi's bicycle, and a few others... anyone want a xerox? please send sase. i will also include a copy of a letter sent to me from Velo-Sport replying to my inquiry about the possible purchase of a colnago.
e-RICHIE Richard Sachs Cycles No.9, North Main Street Chester, CT 06412 USA http://www.richardsachs.com Tel. 860.526.2059
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 23:39:53 -0800 (PST) chasds@mindspring.com writes:
> Richard Sachs wrote:
>
> i have some pics in a 1971 zine showing a pre-clover
> colnago head tube decal. i'll assume the pic was at
> least a year old at that point.
> e-RICHIE
> Richard Sachs Cycles
> No.9, North Main Street
>
>
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> I'm assuming the decals Richard is referring to are the so-called
> *playing card* decals that showed up on the first batch of frames
> VeloSport in Berkeley brought in in 1969. These graphics are
> clearly recognizable as a close relative of the graphics that showed
> up soon thereafter, the ones we are most familiar with on early 70s
> Supers.
>
> However, there is a photo floating around of a 60s Colnago (I saw it
> in a book somewhere, but I'll be darned if I can remember where now,
> Frank Berto's derailleur book maybe? Or that nice picture book
> about the Tour de France whose author escapes me at the moment? One
> of those, I think), with a very different graphics set from any I've
> ever seen in the flesh, almost cartoon-like (in Mike Kone's
> words)...it sounds like Johann picked up that set of graphics. If
> so, Johann, that is very cool and I would love to see some pics of
> them!
>
> Unless my memory is faulty (always a distinct possibility), wasn't
> Ernesto making frames under his own name as early as the late 1950s?
> Now *there'd* be a cool bike. A 50s Colnago. Or early 60s,
> anyway.
>
> Charles "can't have too many Colnagos" Andrews
> Los Angeles