Roy Drinkwater wrote:
"I have a friend who had a collection of four track bikes, a Nagasawa, a 3Rensho, a Basso, and a Cinelli. When one had to go, it was the one with the roughest workmanship and finish. That's how I got my Cinelli... ;^)"
Last fall I bought a Cinelli (SC road). It is what I've wanted for a couple of decades. To me, Cinelli is a rider's bike, not a looker's bike. An engineer's bike, as it were. To be loved for what it does, not for evidence of hours of polishing and puttering. At some point, the artistry that Richard Sachs, Curt Goodrich, and others routinely do is beautiful because it looks effortless, but it isn't.
Cinelli, the anti-Hetchins... I won't go baroque for a Hetchins (groan).
harvey sachs
mcLean va