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models and features
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material
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years
note: many overlaps and exceptions! |
marking
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finish
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expander bolt
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bar clamp bolt
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clamping surface
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Road, Track?
extremely rare |
steel
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c. 1946/7 to mid-late 1950s
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'Cinelli Firenze'* (may lack markings)
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chrome plated
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12mm
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12mm nut
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ungrooved
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#1 Road |
steel
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c. 1950 (when the Cinelli company morphs from Giotto to Cino and moves to Milano) through 1970s
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old logo 'Cinelli Milano' stamp on top (several years with Cinelli Firenze still in production concurrently)
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chrome plated
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12mm
(slit in cone to keep it from spinning), latest gen. has recessed hex |
12mm nut
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ungrooved
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old-logo
1A Road 2A, 3A Track. |
forged aluminum alloy
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Introduced in 1960 in Italian trade show at Rome Olympics. Production begins 2-3 years later.
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old logo' Cinelli Milano' stamp on top,
sometimes patent # 981528 marking on bottom |
non-anodized, then clear anodized after mid-late '60s.
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7mm hex (slit in cone to keep it from spinning)
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12mm nut*
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grooved
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old logo
1A Road 2A, 3A Track |
forged aluminum alloy
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c. 1972 - 1978
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old logo' Cinelli Milano' stamp on top*, no patent#
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clear anodized
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6mm hex
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recessed 6mm hex
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grooved and ungrooved
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old logo
1R Road |
forged aluminum alloy
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c. 1973 - 1978
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old logo 'Cinelli Milano' stamp on top and 'Cinelli' face plate*
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clear anodized
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6mm hex
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hidden bar clamp*, 6mm hex
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ungrooved
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new logo
1A Road 2A, 3A Track |
forged aluminum alloy
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1978 - 1990s
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new logo 'Cinelli' stamp on top*
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clear or black anodized, also custom factory-engraving
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6mm hex
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recessed 6mm hex
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ungrooved
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new logo
1R Road |
forged aluminum alloy
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1978 - late 1980s
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new logo 'Cinelli' stamp on top, 'winged C' logo face plate
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clear or black anodized, also custom factory-engraving
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6mm hex, sometimes alloy
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hidden bar clamp*, 6mm hex
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ungrooved
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notes:
- most models were available in 7-14cm, in 5mm increments
- every Cinelli stem had a 26.4mm clamp all the way until the 1990s, with a freakish 26.0 exception from the '60s here.
- 22.2mm quill was standard, also most models came in 22.0 (French)
- the stem badges alone deserve a timeline - in short, before the silver-plated brass badge (1950s/60s/70s) there was a cloisonné badge (1950s) with a blue background, and then the last of the stembadges (1970s) were aluminum
- the Cinelli catalog in the early '80s mentions custom engraving, but very little of the pantographing one sees was out of the Cinelli factory
