[CR]re: windsors

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Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 15:45:29 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
From: <chasds@mindspring.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]re: windsors

jerry wrote:

I think several CR members, myself included, have Windsor Pros. They were, in my opinion, a very good clone of a Cinelli Supercorsa at a bargain price. The Cinelli purists sometimes don't like them because they weren't "real" Cinellis. It doesn't help in this regard that quite a few Winsors have been redecaled as Cinellis and passed off as genuine Cinellis. But a CR shop owner recently sold a number of NOS similar Cinelli SC clones, Raysport frames, and had several CR members among the takers. So I guess they are desirable if the price is right.

Regards,

Jerry Moos Big Spring, TX

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I've ridden two or three of these over the years, and all had the same problem...and others have mentioned this, so I'm not alone.

Compared to a Cinelli SC, or any other top racing frame of the period (1970s), the Windsor Pro feels *dead.* It's hard to characterize this problem beyond that word. They feel heavy, and dead.

Someone opined that this was because they were built with straight-guage tubing. I have no idea if there's anything to that. But I can vouch for the essential flaw: the frames feel weird to me. Not lively and refined, but dead and heavy.

ymmv

Charles Andrews
Los Angeles