Help Please to Identify My Steel Road Bike

[Laggingbehindagain]

Hi,

Very new to Retrobikes and a work colleague recommended the forum to try and identify an old road bike I have inherited / given.

The detail of the bike is as follows:

Frame has no decals as I suspect it has been painted at some point in its life.

The frame is stamped with the Cinelli symbols (on the lugs) and the bottom bracket is Stamped Cinelli with a serial number. The rear wheel drop outs are stamped Colmbus.

The crossbar seems to have a fixing point near the front, don’t think it is a pump holder as it is only at one end.

Any ideas / information of age and origin would be much appreciated

Hopefully Photos attached.

Many thanks

 

[Midlife]

Looks classy, number hanger as well . Any pics of the whole bike and the seat stay cluster where the seat stays join the seat lug?

Shaun

 

[Laggingbehindagain]

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Hi
I will take some additional pics in the morning of the whole bike and seat post lug.
Seems the components have been changed at some point in its life as it had 8 speed shimano 105 throughout and tri bars have been added. The rims are Mavic GP4, the tyred hold air and everything works apart from the headset has some play.

Cheers

 

[Laggingbehindagain]

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Anyone any ideas?

 

[PANZR]

Can't help ID the frame but the number on the bottom bracket just above the Cinelli logo is not a frame serial number, it's the patent number for the Cinelli 'spoiler' bottom bracket (228298-84)...all Cinelli bottom brackets of this type have the same number and the last two digits are the year the patent was issued ie; 1984

There could be a frame number just to the right of the Cinelli logo on the BB

As mentioned above, it would be good to see the seat cluster

 

[Laggingbehindagain]

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Photo of seat lug.

Thanks

 

[Laggingbehindagain]

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Full bike picture.

Thanks

 

[Laggingbehindagain]

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Any further ideas?

 

[BigFoz]

A number of the lugs seem to have miniature Cinelli logos on them - top of steerer tub, seat post log etc - could this be an actual Cinelli frame, or simply something using Cinelli lugs?

 

[cotterpin]

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Unfortunately Cinelli made their lugs and bottom brackets available to quite a few Italian frame builders, so that does not give a guide. However, a lot of Cinelli's top end frames were chrome plated beneath the paint, so see if there is any evidence of that. As previously mentioned the tab on the underside of the top tube is for a rider's race number, so there is a possibility that this was a special build for a pro rider. Looking closely at the first picture there appears to be a faint frame number (bottom of the picture) which may give a better indication of the frame builder. The model range in the 80's started with the Riviera which was never made by Cinelli themselves but were made by others on their behalf. These were heavy frames, typically with a wheelbase of 41" and had mudguard eyes as standard. Of the Columbus tubed frames, there was the Corsa, many of which had a rear brake cable which was routed within the top tube, and finally the Supercorsa which used the SLX tubing.
Hope this helps.