Victor Penner wrote:
> Today I was having a visit with Canadian Olympian, "Ace" Atkinson
> who has
> owned a bike shop here in Vancouver since the 40's. We got around
> to talking
> about Cinelli's because I had given him my Model B. serial# awhile
> ago just
> in case he happened to come across it in his old papers. I
> mentioned that I
> had recently picked up an early 60's SC and gave him that serial#
> also.
>
> Ace had imported bikes directly from Cinelli from the 50's onwards and
> shared this little story with me. He said that he always sold more
> Mod.B's
> than SC's because of the price difference, and as a matter of fact
> that
> Ace's friend was at the 1960 Rome Olympics and Viktor Kapitonov won
> the Mens
> road race on a Mod. B, because the Soviet team could not afford the
> SC! Ace
> told me that Cino gave Kapitonov an SC for his Mod. B as quick as
> he could.
> I guess that Cinelli did not want people knowing that they didn't
> need the
> "premium" model.
Well here's the picture of Viktor Kapitanov getting his new Cinelli Super Corsa outside Cino's shop (?) after winning the '60 Rome Olympic RR.
http://www.velo-retro.com/
Pix is out of 1986 Cinelli catalog (actually a small paperback and a real piece of art).
Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California
.