Freek,
The rear-most guides for the rear brake's cable guides look
very un-Colnago like to me. but who can say for sure?
As for the supposed Alan Peiper connection... I'm sure there
are thousands for stories like this one in Belgium. Also, the
shift levers are Simplex, perhaps made for French bosses. If
you can see this bike again, you might remove a lever to see if
the bosses are Italian or French style.
By the way, it seems as though every racing bike for sale in
Belgium comes with a repainted frame and some sort of "story".
Is that really the case?
Cheers,
Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia (USA)
> Dear listers,
>
> Sometimes travelling into Belgium can be interesting for a
> Dutchman. And I
> don't mean the beer. I've come across a bike that is
> presented as a Colnago
> Super, it has the right decals, and is from 73 or 74 (the
> rear derailleur, a
> Campy, has the patent 73 designation). What strikes me is
> that it doesn't
> have any Colnago pantograhing anywhere, and doesn't seem to
> have the right
> lug cutouts. But I don't really know anything about
> Colnago's. Also the
> green-metallic colour doesn't strike me as typical Colnago or
> Italian. The
> frame does seem to be quite well built, and especially the
> cut-outs in the
> front of the headlugs are very special.
> Can anyone shed any light on this one? Here is the link to my
> wooljersey
> album:
>
http://www.wooljersey.com/
> Sorry
> about the shaky pictures.
>
> Oh, the bike is reported to have belonged to Alan Peiper.
> 1974? I wonder;
> Peiper was born in 1960, and came to live in Belgium at the
> age of 17 or 18.
>
> Freek Faro
> Rotterdam Netherlands
>
>
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