Hi Joseph,
I missed your original post, but have had a look at the archives. Greg
Softley in Aus knows more about the early Colnagos than anyone else I'm
aware of. He has various pictures of pre 1970 bikes at:
http://www.flickr.com/
Mine is supposedly 1968 - there are images here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/
What makes you think that yours is 1969?
As others have pointed out, the fork is not, and the top-tube and bottom bracket brazeons are not (but could easily have been added), nor is the bottom bracket cutout (the early bikes have a circle of drilled holes).
Does it have any cutouts in the lugs?
Intriguingly the head-tube lugs on yours do seem to be similar to mine:
http://picasaweb.google.com/
I haven't seen any others with head-tube lugs like these (without the point), I'd be interested to see any that do.
Best regards,
Mark Battley Auckland, New Zealand
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Message: 3 Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:59:34 +0000 From: joe mcdoogle <joethaihols@hotmail.co.uk> Subject: Re: [CR] A rather tired 1969 Colnago Super - again To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Message-ID: <COL101-W437BF94DB67D5C25F484A9FEA80@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hello to the list,
You may or may not remember I posted a picture of a Colnago Super frame I had bought about a month ago that had had a rather ugly repair done on the lower head lug. In addition, it had a crease to the seattube, had had cable guides fitted by an amateur and been resprayed. I have contacted a frame builder (Argos Cycles, Bristol, UK) and they are confident of a satisfactory repair which will probably include replacing the downtube and lower headlug. So I am planning on a full rennovation of the frame which will run to around ?400 GBP and would like to get the details correct.
Does anyone has images of a Colnago Super of the same period? Also, there was some controversy regarding whether this was in fact a Super. I think in the end the concensus was that it was and a few members recognised the unusual lugs as appearing on a few other 1969 machines. I would just like to be as certain as possible before I commit myselt to the build. Here are some pictures of the frame in it's current state, I can take some more if required.
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Thankyou in advance for you replies and thankyou for the encouragement and information received last time.
Regards,
Joseph Headd, Manchester, UK
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