Re: [CR] The Crown on That Colorful Colnago

(Example: Framebuilding:Tubing)

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:27:14 -0700
From: "Jim Nusbaum" <jnusbaum@cybermesa.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
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Subject: Re: [CR] The Crown on That Colorful Colnago


Not wanting to start anything but on what basis would you make this claim? He seems to have a sterling Ebay record and I have corresponded with him and he seems reasonable. I have no basis to make any counter claim but he does make a point of calling out the strange fork crown in his listing.

Jim Nusbaum Pagosa Springs, CO

On 1/20/2011 10:55 AM, George Hollenberg wrote:
> Given the dealer, this is most likely yet another fake.
> George
> George Hollenberg, MD
>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Edward Albert<ealbert01@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I would have to agree with Matthew on this. I have never seen a Colnago
>> super fork crown with both the C around the club and the dots on the side.
>> Did someone, in the refinishing, fill in the dots?
>> Edward Albert
>> Chappaqua, New York, USA
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Matthew 'Devotion' Bowne<
>> devotion_finesse@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> As mentioned in a previous post, this is a seemingly rare combination of
>>> fork crown details...
>>> (Sheesh! Will this plot EVER stop thickening???)
>>> This semi-sloping, scalloped (Wagner?) crown, with two holes on the
>> sides,
>>> is typically found on Supers up until about '71, at which point blank
>>> Cinelli 'MC' style crowns became the standard (still with holes on the
>>> sides)...for all of a year or so, until the club logo first appears on
>> the
>>> shoulders of them.
>>> I obsessed over these crown details for a couple of years while trying to
>>> make/obtain an appropriate fork for my '71 Super restoration project. In
>>> all of my internet scouring and image collecting, I have never seen this
>>> early style crown with any logos on it. And this "C around the club"
>> style
>>> did not appear until the early-80's, as far as I knew.
>>> Anybody ever see this combo before?
>>>
>>> Matthew Bowne
>>> Brooklyn, New York
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Edward Albert
>>
>> http://www.thevintagebikelife.com