[CR] WTTn my Vintage Cinelli 66 bars for your 67

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To: Classic Rendezvous <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "Mark Fulton" <markfulton5@mac.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:30:31 -0700
Subject: [CR] WTTn my Vintage Cinelli 66 bars for your 67


I have an old-style Cinelli handle bar with the Cinelli Milano knight crest on the left and the Campione Del Mondo laurel wreath on the right. Single-row knurling (not three-row.) "66" stamped on the right bar end. No size stamp but I measure it as a 38 cm. Beautiful condition. The underside of the knurling looks like it has been mounted once, but no sign of brake mounting. Not a scratch. There's a tiny bit of shop wear on the bends. I'd like to trade it for a similar vintage Cinelli Model 67 Pista bar for the 1970 Limongi Pista frame I'm (very slowly) building up.

Mark Fulton Redwood City California USA

PS: This bar is very deeply stamped, every detail is clearly legible. But the right-side wreath is double struck. A deep strike and a faint strike about a mm to the left. If handle bars are like coins, this means my Cinelli is worth a fortune.

PPS: I also found, stashed with this bar, a NOS 125 mm Cinelli A1 stem with no Cinelli stamp, either old or new, on the top. There is a new-logo Cinelli stamp below the limit line. What's that about? The stem is still anodized, so the top stamp wasn't polished off. Unless somebody re-anodized it later.

MF