Angel M Garcia wrote:
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> Beautiful bike. I was looking at the decals closely out of curiosity to see
> how my 73 Colnago Super compared. They are alike other than an odd twist.
> The two championship labels on the track bike are from top to bottom: green,
> yellow, black, red, blue. My labels are from top to bottom: blue, red,
> black, yellow, green. Typically the championship colors are shown in the
> latter order as far as I know.
The colors of the World Championship stripes are (top to bottom): Blue, red, black, yellow and green as on your bike. My opinion is that the stripes on the '73 Pista are incorrectly applied and in error.
Sometimes the stripes on the seat tube are applied to mirror each other. Example: Top decal (top to bottom), blue, red, black, yellow, green. Bottom decal (top to bottom), green, yellow, black, red, blue.
I believe that the colors originally came from the Olympics:
"Baron Pierre de Coubertin designed the Olympic emblem in 1913. In his words, "These five rings represent the five parts of the world won over to Olympism. . . This is a real international emblem." The Olympic rings represent the union of the areas - the Americas, Africa, Asia, Oceania and Europe and the meeting of athletes throughout the world at the Olympic Games. Contrary to a popular misconception, the colors themselves do not represent any single continent. The colors were chosen because at least one of these colors is found in the flag of every nation."
I have also heard that the stripes are oriented with the blue at the top and the green at the bottom so as to represent the orientation of the sky and the earth.
Chuck Schmidt L.A.
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