I've never seen a Cinelli with Simplex dropouts. Sounds interesting.
Kurt Sperry Bellingham WA
On 7/12/06, Michael Schmid <schmid@zunterer.com> wrote:
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> 2. Cinelli Bike
> I have a Cinelli Bike which I got from a little bike shop for the price
> of some repairs done since the former owner did not want it anymore. My
> greatest luck and a dream come true. I would like to know the production
> date. The frame Number is 4723, it is a 58 cm ( C to C) frame with a
> B-model fork. It came with mafac brakes and Universal brake-levers, a
> Brooks B-17 saddle, Suntour Honor - Spirt (yes Spirt) shifter-gruppo,
> campa NR-cranks (not early ones) and maillard hubs.Steel non marked head
> set. The bar and stem was replaced by the bike shop due to damage in a
> garage by a parking car. The colour is a greyish-blue metalic, decals
> and front badge are original. What puzzles me is the frame having
> simplex dropouts without a rear shifter eyelet but fender eyelets.
> Chromed lugs in the fron, chromed drop-out section front an rear. No
> holes in the lugs no BB-oiler. One of the top-tube cable clamps is an
> early open-C version. There are no braze-ons except pump-pegs on the
> down-tube. The frame has thin world champion stripes withe the script
> "champion du monde" on the down tube and on the fork stays. No tubing
> sticker but sone residue of stickers in the place. I could post pictures
> if someone can tell me where.
> My guess is that the frame is older than the componentry it came with. I
> suspect it originally might have been equipped with universal
> center-pull brakes and Campa shifter gruppo.
> Can one of you experts tell me more? What tubing is it? What stem an bar
> would be period correct? Cinelli steel badged? I can send pictures
> individually.
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