I have a post like that. It came to me on a '64 Legnano, but judging from the other updates the bike'd had I guessed it was early 70's.
David Bilenkey Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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> [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of
> Dale B. Phelps
> Sent: December 15, 2004 1:53 PM
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: [CR]was, "that Olmo"...now: Unicanitor seatposts?
>
> I'm trying to identify a Unicanitor saddle that came with the
> Olmo Special discussed some last month:
> http://ebay.com/
>
> The bike has a fair amount of its original bits, "no-record"
> hubs, fiamme red labels with the ferrules on the valve stem
> hole, older 151 bcd crank w/very square-looking arms, early
> record ft derrailleur, etc that all help to date it (I
> haven't checked the lock rings on the hubs yet) as ~1961.
>
> My question is this, there's a unicanitor alloy seatpost that
> I am sure is much newer and likely a replacement part in the
> 40+year lifetime of this bike. It has a cast head with big
> round red (plastic?) discs that are clamped between the old
> "english" style discs with a single long bolt (sorry if this
> description isn't the right lingo) anyone have any idea the
> vintage? The bike also has a sueded unicanitor saddle with
> "cinelli" printed on the back, so I suspect the post is ~ early 80's?
>
> Dale Phelps, Longmont CO