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The Cinelli Bivalent hubs were designed to let the front and rear wheels be interchangeable for wheel support during races. The wheel changes are very fast, especially with the rear wheel, since the chain stays on the gears.
Scan from 'Bicycle Guide' article
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from a receipt for Cinelli #1626,
sold by Spence Wolf for $ 235.50 on 9/29/1965:
- 70 mm BB shell
- brass head badge
- no "ears" in lugs
- oiler hole in top and bottom of BB shell
- aluminum bars (Cinelli)
- steel stem (Cinelli)
- Campagnolo Record, Mafac Top 63 brakes,
Scheeren wood-filled rims, 200 gr. silk tires and
Brooks Professional saddle.
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geometry of 1960 CINELLI SC #7094
(center to center)
Seat Tube -- 55.5cm
Top Tube -- 56.0cm
BB drop -- 8.0cm
Chain Stay -- 42.5cm
Wheel base -- 102.0cm
Seat Tube < -- 73.0°
Head Tube < -- 73.0°
Fork Rake -- 5.5cm
Trail -- 4.6cm*
*wheel dia. 68.0cm
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'In the Draft of Giants', by Dave Staub, who was a 17 year old American racer visiting Cinelli in 1957:
The Cinelli factory was located on the eastern edge of Milan. A winery in its prior life, the entrance opened into a dirt courtyard with the office, the former main house, in the center. The factory was dark and dingy and didn't look like a place that made world-class bicycles and steel handlebars and stems (which had become the choice of riders throughout the world). Here, I finally bought my Cinelli road bike for all of $80! During the assembly of the bike, Cino, himself, sorted through a stack of Brooks leather saddles and hand-picked one just for my bike.
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Jobst Brandt - meeting Cino in 1959
In the morning he had me ride around the yard a few times and then raised the saddle a bit and moved it forward. He put his newest model 360mm extra wide bars with deep reach on a 120mm stem, placing the brake levers in a better position. Down below I got the newest Campagnolo crank spindle and 180mm five-pin Cinelli (Magistroni) steel cranks that finally gave me true running chainwheels in contrast to the previous three pin style. He was disturbed by my choice of wooden rims and tried to get me back on Fiamme aluminum but I didn't take. |
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