I think the following may have been discussed before, but I'll mention it here. Note that the little "R" Registered Trademark symbol on Ray's blue Super head decal is filled with a yellow background, where my green Super (most likely 1974) has a clear (or no) background. Perhaps this is a fine subtlety of chronology?
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Ciao, Mark Agree Southfield MI USA ~ ~ ~
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 23:15:18 -0800 (PST) From: Raymond Dobbins <raydobbins2003@yahoo.com> To: chasds@mindspring.com, mbolduc@triad.rr.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [CR]correct 1974 Colnago headbadge
I'm fairly certain you are right Charles, the Colnago club with the Colnago name below is the correct head tube decal for a 74 Super. My former super was purchased as a 72, but a several people on the list believed it to be a 74, or maybe a late 73, so I decided to split the difference and called it a 73. Anyway, this is what the head tube decal looks like for Supers from 72-74 and maybe 75 or 76:
http://www.raydobbins.com/
I don't know when a Colnago bike was first ridden to a world championship victory, nor in what event, but it must have happened at least by the early 70's since the 72-74 Supers were sporting w/c stripe decals on seat tubes, as you can see in this same bike:
http://www.raydobbins.com/
The decal consisting of the Colnago club backed by the w/c stripes definitely came sometime around 1978, give or take a year, Here is a shot of that decal on my 78 Mexico Oro:
http://www.raydobbins.com/
As you can see, the w/c stripes were prominently located within the scheme, and yet Saronni would not go on to win the Road W/C Road Race until several years later in 82. So I'm wondering what the first w/c event was that Colnago won.
Also, If anyone has a Super known to be from 75, 76 or 77, it would be interesting to see if and how the decals changed.
Ray Dobbins Miami FL USA
chasds@mindspring.com wrote: the correct 1974 badge is surely the Colnago flower with the *COLNAGO* below as a sub-script.
This is the first I've heard of the flower/world-stripes badge being used any earlier than about 1978.
Does anyone know when the flower/stripes badge came in? Late 70s, right?
Charles Andrews
SoCal