Looks like a really bad repaint to me too, right over the original chrome while losing the headbadge. I don't think those are Cinelli fenders either. My '71 Speciale Corsa has eyeletted forkends/dropouts as well as fender bosses on both stay bridges. Kurt Sperry Bellingham WA
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> Not much to wonder for my eyes, inspect the RH fork detail, not much rust
> for what appears to be an old scratch set, can you say Chrome prior? YES.
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> If the bike came with fenders,I remember seeing bikes from Cino having th
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> eyelets retained, filed in a pleasing way but still attached.
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> I vote a bike owned for a long time by one owner and maintained as needed
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> who was not afraid of the wet.
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> 30 years ago there was a black one in Southern California, with a light
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> head tube and seat tube panel, its hiding somewhere. That bike had Style.
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> John Jorgensen
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