Let's stop torturing Marc, and go to the archieves!!
-Grant McLean toronto, canada
>From previous question about Colnago seatstay caps:
Hi Brad It has already been confirmed on this list by multiple owners, that the panto'd fluted seatstay cap appeared as early as '77. That is not to say that ALL Supers & Mexicos came that way, and in my observations.....most didn't. I too thought approx. 1980/1 was when the panto'd caps appeared, until other members offered contradictory evidence <<So I'm figuring that Colnago changed from fluted-seatstay-caps to = flat-caps-with-"Colnago"-molded-into-them (like on David's bike!)sometime=
between mid 1980 and the print date of the Summer '81 Bikecology catalog>=
David's bike does NOT have "flat-caps-with-"Colnago"-molded-into-them " !=
His are fluted. To my knowledge, the first Colnago that appeared with flat seatstay "Colnago" caps was the '83 Superissimo. Interestingly, some of = the magazine ads for the '83 Superissimo specifically say that the it comes w= ith fluted seatstay caps. Maybe some did come with fluted, but every Superissimo I have seen has flat.=
I am aware of the August '80 article, I even had it bookmarked. I can on=
ly
speculate that they had one of the frames that did not receive the panto'=
d
seatstay caps
Marc Boral=
Long Beach, CA