My '70 SC has: Holes in lugs, no holes in fork tangs, silver plated brass headbadge, 531 tubeset, full eyelets and fender bosses, 5294 serial number.
Anything else I should chronicle?
Kurt Sperry Bellingham WA USA
On 5/22/07, Jan Heine <heine94@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> At 2:30 AM -0700 5/22/07, Chuck Schmidt wrote:
>
> >I've posted in the past about my August 1960 Cinelli SC
>
> New-style lugs without points, I assume?
>
> So here is the rudimentary beginning draft of a timeline for Cinelli
> SCs. If others just fill in their knowledge, we'll get somewhere
> pretty quickly. I suggest splitting this into the bikes (first part -
> the evidence, so to speak), and the "Changes" (second part, the
> timeline that will be expanded).
>
> I'll start with the bikes I have seen.
>
> Bikes:
>
> Early 1950s?
> Large headbadge
>
> Late 1950s
> Small headbage (brass), points on lugs, 74 mm shell, oiler/drain
> holes on BB shell. Bike was restored - headbadge holes may have been
> filled and redrilled.
>
> 1960
> Small headbadge (brass), no points on lugs, 74 mm shell, oiler/drain
> holes on BB shell
>
> after 1960, before 1965
> Small headbadge (brass), no points on lugs, 70 mm shell, oiler/drain
> holes on BB shell
>
> ca. 1972
> Small headbadge (aluminum), holes in lugs and crown stiffener, 70 mm
> shell, no oiler/drain holes on BB shell
>
> ca. 1978?
> New logos, no headbadge
>
>
> Changes:
>
> mid-1950s: small brass headbadge replaces large one
>
> 1960: lugs without points replace those with points
>
> some time before 1965: 68 mm BB shell replaces 70 mm BB shell
>
> between 1965 and 1972: Aluminum headbadge replaces brass, holes
> appear in lugs and crown stiffener, oiler/drain holes in BB shell
> deleted
>
> ca. 1978: Headbadge deleted, new logos
>
> I have heard about transitional bikes with no headbadges, but old
> logos (or was it the other way around)? Dave mentioned color
> differences in the headbadge and decals. If we put all this together
> in one place, it will be quite useful, not just for dating bikes, but
> also for restoring them.
>
> Jan Heine
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