I have a Cinelli Pista interestingly modified for road. Took it to Velo Rendezvous a while back. Several, including Brian Baylis and Richard Bulis (?? from Reno) thought it was 1960's. No holes in the lugs, but similar shape lugs as ebay Pista, brass headbadge. Mine has been refinished in chrome, so no original finish to go by. And the serial number, well, apparently no rhyme in that...
Message: 8 Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:32:07 -0700 From: Charles Andrews <chasds@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: [CR] cinelli pista on ebay To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Message-ID: <9A9EB70A12BC4BFE977A7935FE6FCC18@DELL> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
I had a couple of questions for Cinelli-philes about this bike, outed by Ken Sanford:
I think Edward Brooks had it right, this is a 70s bike. I was under the impression that earlier cinelli track bikes had a different lug, without holes in them, and this bike has the later silver-finish headbadge. Older ones have the brass badge, yes? nice bike, but not 1960s, I'm thinking.
I know just enough about Cinellis to be dangerous...and I give Edward Brooks all respect for not being apoplectic that the seller is trying to get 4 times what he originally sold it for...
Charles Andrews
Los Angeles