[CR]RE: "NOS" Cinelli on Ebay

(Example: Framebuilding:Tubing)

Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 20:57:44 -0400
From: "Kurt Sperry" <kurtsperry@netscape.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]RE: "NOS" Cinelli on Ebay

Oddly perhaps I thought the exact same thing when I read that the Speedplays had been fitted for "testing", although I suppose this could mean they had just used the pedals to hand spin the cranks while setting the derrailleur limit screws in the stand. I doubt it. Unless there are fit issues I don't think there's really any need to test ride a bike after a build up if the mechanic is good.

Perhaps it's only me, but I get no buzz whatever off Cinelli products made after the change to the flying C logo. None. I've seen a couple up close and they were nicely built and finished but... nothing. I suppose I will never forgive whoever was sufficiently lacking in taste to go from the classic Cinelli look to the major fugly flying C kit. I know it's shallow, but to me it's just not Cinelli anymore after the change.

Kurt Sperry Bellingham WA


>Lou Deeter wrote:
>>
>> http://ebay.com/<blah
>>
>> This large Cinelli Super Corsa is advertised as NOS frame/fork/Super Record
>> group.  It will be interesting to see the final bid price on this one.  There
>> seems to be a drop in used Super Record bike prices of late (anyone else
>> noticing that) but as with anything that is pristine, I expect this one will show
>> that the market is still solid for NOS.  I'm not the expert on identifying the
>> probable year of the group, but the rounded nuts for the brake calipers make me
>> think this is a pre-80 group.  Wish the seller would post a closeup of the
>> front derailleur.    Lou Deeter, Orlando FL
>
>Interesting conundrum:
>The seller writes in his auction description, "Never ridden (New Old
>Stock) frame and groupo. Measures 59Cm Center to center. Everything on
>bike is new, never ridden or used. Even the frame and fork."  and later
>"The Speed Play pedals are on the bike so it could be built and tested."
>
>So... "I tested the bike out but it has never been ridden."  Huh?
>Ooooooh, it makes my brain hurt!
>
>Chuck Schmidt
>South Pasadena, CA
>

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