There are currently two Andrea Pesenti bikes on eBay - the Cinelli Laser that prompted this thread, German eBay # 200075159428, and a more extreme, but also rather beautiful, 1989 carbon fibre creation (any information about this?), UK eBay # 280078122365
Was Pesenti responsible for any other interesting on topic bikes, for Cinelli or other companies?
Thanks,
Wyndham Pulman-Jones Girton, Cambs., UK.
On 2/2/07 21:26, "Raymond Dobbins" <raydobbins2003@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I just want to add that a Google search of "Cinelli Laser" came up with
> several pics of Laser #014. It happens to be the same as mine, so we can
> assume that the of the 005 and 007 version (with the rear brake caliper under
> the bb shell), no more 13 were built. According to the Cinelli Registry, Guy
> Apple owns #013. I'll ask him and if his is the same as #014, we can narrow
> down the early version to no more than 12.
>
> Also a correction to what I said before: my Laser came with Ambrosio
> Aerodynamic rims, not Assos.
>
> Ray Dobbins
> Miami FLA USA
>
> Raymond Dobbins <raydobbins2003@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Dirk,
>
> I am certainly interested in Lasers, but this one doesn't come up in any of my
> saved searches, not even in the broad Cinelli-Worldwide-All categories search.
> I wonder if perhaps it is because this seller doesn't offer to ship it?
> That's the only explanation I can come up with.
>
> I did a Google translation of the seller's text, and I didn't see anything
> about only 10 of this version having been built. In any event, I would not be
> surprised if that asumption by the seller was correct. I own Laser serial
> number 024 (with exact same strip over the bb shell), and by the time they
> made mine, it was different from the one on eBay. The frame is almost
> identical, with the main difference being the position of the rear brake,
> which on my bike is located behind the seatstays, in the normal way. Mine has
> all Super Record drive train, brakes and hubs, with Assos rims. The
> bar/stem/saddle combo is an identical VIP set as the one on the eBay bike, as
> well as the 005 bike in Japan.
>
> I'd love to know more about the Lasers, such as how many were built, but my
> efforts to find out (which include writing to the Cinelli firm as well as
> Andrea Cinelli himself), have so far yielded nothing.
>
> I am planning on doing a photo page for my Laser, and I would like to include
> as much information as possible about the Laser model(s), so if anyone has any
> information or photos to share, I would appreciate it very much.
>
> Ray Dobbins
> Miami FLA USA
>
> PS - Does anybody else on this list have a Laser? Guy Apple?
>
> "Feeken, Dirk" <dirk.feeken@sap.com> wrote:
> I assume everybody who is interested in Cinelli Lasers has already seen
> the nice example on German eBay # 200075159428
> I wonder if the assumption of the seller that only ten of this variant
> have been built is true. Given the three digit serial number 007 I would
> think that at least 100 have been planned but the only other example I
> know of is Amaki-san's number 005 - also under 10.
> Does anybody know how many have been built?
>
> Dirk
>
> --
> Dirk Feeken
> Heidelberg
> Germany