This little thread about seat-stay caps got me thinking. Tell me another major italian frame in the 1960s that had the same delicate flutes in the seat-stay caps that Colnago Supers had. Did Ernesto start doing this before Masi did? Granted, Ernesto's caps were narrow, so the flutes are narrow, but quite pretty in their way. The earliest ones are quite short, and very pretty.
Charles Andrews Los Angeles
PS--apropos of this thread, someone once proposed that the fast-back seat-stays on later Pogliaghis were characteristic of the breed. I countered that, in fact, Pogliaghis had simple flat track-frame-style caps for most of the shop's existence, and it was only at the end the Sante started doing fast-back stays...maybe as a special order? Or as some kind of homage to Cinelli?