Since writing the last contri about the ICS bikes and accessories I have rexamined the photos on the CR ICS site with those I have here at home. Thanks to the enormous magnification available on the CR site it is possible to observe in great detail the 1988 frame and it is clear that the 84 and the 88 are not the same one hung with different group sets, as i had at first thought.
The 1984 MAGNI frame was a typical top-end road frame - Tommasini I reckon - with the longish fluted top-eyes to the seat stays and a seat lug taking a seat-bolt. The 1988 frame is still lugged although it is not entirely possible to determine accurately the shape of the cut-outs, but the seat-stay top configuratuin is very much a fast-back model without seat-bolt. The seat pin, with its small screw or whatever on the front surface must have an internal wedge device like some of the Stronglights of that period or, there is an Allen key grub screw through the back of the seat lug/tube into the pillar.
What is very interesting about the frame and I would like to hear other Members' opinion on this point, is that it appears that the rear wheel to seat-tube clearance is either as we say in England "fag paper clearance" or the seat tube is fluted, thereby receiving the leading edge of the tyre into the frame. A bit like Hetchins Six-Day, but much, much closer. There was.. and still is,, an Italian builder who made frames with this feature as standard in the 80s - Bruno Tardivo of Cuneo, just over the border in Italy from Monte Carlo. His frames bear the name CBT Italia. In the 80s he always produced his frames with black chrome forks and stays - absolutely magnificent.
Still drooling over them
Norris Lockley