I traded a Trek for a mid 60's Cinelli SC. The Cinelli was beat painted with grey paint and really worn. The guy was going to spread it to a 9 speed. I traded a late 70's Trek upgraded to 8speed with brifters. The frame had identical toptube, seat tube, chain stays, wheelbase. I am not sure about angles and rake since these are more difficult to measure but it seem to have been a copy of the SC. Now I need a headbadge to restore that bike. Brian in Berkeley
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:06:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Donald Gillies <gillies@cs.ubc.ca> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: [CR]Trek : A Cinelli Copy ?? Message-ID: <200604260206.TAA23287@cascade.cs.ubc.ca> Precedence: list Message: 7
We already talked about the resemblance and attempt by Schwinn to mimic a cinelli in their 1960-1980 paramount line.
I was looking at my early-mid 80's (borderline OT, but Cinelli OT) TREK 500 and I saw that at one point, they went to an IC seat lug with integrated binder bolt - almost identical to cinelli in terms of shaping and function. Was the frame geometry a copy as well ?? Will a Trek bike of this era - in the right 531c tubing - exhibit a ride that is somewhat similar to a cinelli ?? Or are both bikes totally different.
I imagine that the number of people on the list who own both a TREK of this era and a Cinelli is : 0.
- Don Gillies San Diego, CA
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