[CR]re: ebay outing: colnago super

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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:59:16 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
From: <chasds@mindspring.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]re: ebay outing: colnago super

..yet another oops. The brakes on the Colnago mentioned earlier appear to be pre-1977. So they're at least contemporaneous with the frame. I've never seen that milling pattern on a Colnago before, but who knows? Maybe there was a run of them.

The brake levers definitely have the later bend though.

This bike is a good example of a restoration gone wrong, to me. Even if the fork is a replacement--and on closer examination I'd bet that it is--the parts are disharmonious, even when they're plausible..like the lipped front derailleur with the older SR rear. Sure, they would have appeared together, and maybe on that bike, but somehow it's not as harmonious as the older front derailleur would have been, and you put the lipped derailleur with the older brakes, and the newer seatpost, and rims, and the years-older stem, and the bike begins to make a somewhat chaotic impression.

I ran across this on a bike I rode the other day. A Masi Special I have, from probably 1969, that I built up awhile back, has some similar disharmonies in the build. Not as obvious, but there all the same. Now that I see them, they drive me nuts..<g> We should all have such problems, yes?

Charles Andrews
Los Angeles