What Pinarello Model is this?

[ThePrivateer]

I usually post/read the mtb part of the forum.
But today I found a classified ad from a guy just up my street selling a race bike.
As I am not very experienced with these bikes I’d like to pick your brains

Is this a bike worthwhile getting and restoring? Is it even a proper Pinarello? The Seat stay around the top of the seat tube looks different than many P. Bikes. And the font of the decal looks different too …


Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

 

[Nob]

Personally I’d not bother as low end components & to my eyes not a pinarello rather gas pipe tubing low end mass production frame…better pics would help define it in a better light though

 

[LondonClassic]

Pinarello have a lust for pantographing. There should be some sign somewhere (bottom bracket?) if its a Pinarello - 'GP' logos or dove cutout perhaps.. Also never seen that logo before.

I second the emotion that is probably not worth it in any case. Ride as is or look for an Asolo or Sestriere which occupy the cheaper, entry level of Pinarelloismo. In the UK at least these can be had fairly cheaply as they usually need new decals / resprays. Pinarello weren't very good at sealing up their decals for a good while.

 

[fguki]

60 Pinarello. Nothing special and not desirable in the retro road world. That starts with the mid. 70s models onwards really.

 

[ThePrivateer]

Thank you guys,

So I’ll stick with my rusty Legnano gran premio that I still have in the garage waiting for my next bike fix up slot…

 

[non-fixie]

There was a German manufacturer in Memmingen called Epple, who bought frames from Pinarello and marketed them as "Epple Pinarello". The ones I have seen were not exactly high end. This, I suspect, could well be one of them.

 

[ThePrivateer]

That would make sense, as I am in Bavaria here. Epple is a manufacturer that comes up a lot in used bike ads around here. And true: those are not considered to be very upmarket bikes

I never knew they used the Pinarello brand

 

[ThePrivateer]

Just found out why. Epple wasnot just a German company, it was really a local one. They were situated in Memmingen, which is kind of close to where I live (less than 100km)

I just Found another one with both names printed on it..