Steven Maasland was kind enough to recently write to Andrea Cinelli about my 1972 Cinelli which was a special edition by Bruegelmann's in Frankfurt. Andrea Cinelli's reply includes this regarding Columbus and Reynolds: "You are correct that the frame is lighter as we drilled the lugs and the BB shell for lightening, and my father, based upon the close friendship with the owner of Columbus (Aldo Luigi Colombo), had had special lighter tubes made. In that period, the two avantgarde Italian factories (Cinelli and Columbus), in the application of avantgarde racing bicycle technology (high resistance steel alloys) had to contrast the myth and image of the English Reynolds tubing."
Angel Garcia, not intending to start another war, Long Valley, NJ
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snip > BTW, I've see Italian Masis, pre 1973, that were all Columbus, all
Reynolds, Reynolds main tubes with Columbus forks and stays, and all Faulk
tubing frames. Seen Cinellis the same way as well. It seems that the
Italians liked Reynolds tubing more in the early days than in later years.
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> Brian Baylis
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Snip
>Cino Cinelli was once quoted In "Cycling" as saying he preferred Reynolds
to
Columbus tubing as Reynolds was straighter, what stopped him using it more
was
the import duties in the days before Britain joined the Common Market.
Steven Robson
Ulverston
England