But since there seem to be 3 different dropout vintages involved, a good guess would be that perhaps there were damaged rears so a builder used the closest thing for the repair. If one was trying to match the style of the eyelets, then the two rear dropouts although mis-matched do make sense to have put in. Only type faces are wrong, but the shapes and the fender eyes are the same.
Mike Kone in Boulder CO
> So let me get this straight. Someone took a mid 1960s bike and retro fitted
> a set of early to mid 1950s dropouts in it (ten year older dropouts)?
> That is a huge strech... possible, but pretty a big stretch, in my opinion.
>
>
>
> Dale Brown
> Greensboro, North Carolina USA
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bbspokes@hotmail.com
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Sent: Fri, 4 May 2007 8:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Is this an old Cinelli road frame or what?
>
> I agree with Kurt, the dropouts look like they were changed out. Looks sim
> ilar to my 1968 SC in construction but lacks the green chromovelato paint. S
> orry Dale. Now why did I sell that bike????? Who has it is it Nels? I know i
> t went to Seattle. Brian Blum in Berkeley
>
> >From: "Kurt Sperry"
> >Reply-To: haxixe@gmail.com
> >To: "Tam Pham"
> >CC: Jay Sexton , classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> >Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Is this an old Cinelli road frame or what?
> >Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 13:57:40 -0700
> >
> >I agree about the DO joins looking very unCinelli-ish. I've never seen a
> >Cinelli with such ugly junctions before. Classic Cinellis are generally
> >really fine in this respect, surely those DOs were hamfistedly added later
>
> >for whatever reason. The frameset overall looks very mid-60s to my eyes.
> >
> >Kurt Sperry
> >Bellingham WA
> >USA
> >
> >
> >On 5/3/07, Tam Pham wrote:
> >>
> >>IMHO, it looks like the original dropouts might have been hacked off and
> >>"retrofitted" with another set of dropouts... Unless the 50's SCs just
> >>weren't built with aesthetics in mind. These dropout/stays junctions
> >>don't look very attractive to me:
> >>
> >>http://www.cyclesdeoro.com/For-sale/Cinelli_SC_A/img_0643.jpg
> >>
> >
> >
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