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Colnago Serial Number Chart

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56 cm, nutted brakes, top of bb guides, Clover in BB, Clamp on front derailleur, Braze on shift levers, Semi sloping fork crown has a club with rounded stem and COLNAGO. Downtube lug has the club cutout with rounded stem. Serial numbering only started for Colnago on USA-bound bikes when the CPSC started requiring tracking, etc. West Coast Cycles was importing Colnago at the time and the serial numbers.

Colnago Conic 94, 61cm frameset. Seatube C-T 61cm, 27.2mm.

Top tube c-c 58cm. Headtube 18cm. Stunning Wordperfect color scheme. Tubing is Columbus Brain for Colnago. Downtube is crimped - Conic. This is the 2nd Conic I've owned and had this for an Eroica build.

I still have my SLX Spiral Conic from 1991 and this rides very similar. See photos for condition. Paint is very good. The fork has some rust under the bridge but the chrome on the rear stays is VGC.

There are some small nicks but nothing too significant. Hard to show in photos due to color.

This is not an Art Gallery frame but you'd have trouble spotting blemishes from 6ft. International shipping available at standard USPS rates. Calculate from Seattle, WA, 98199.

The rise in interest in vintage Colnagos has led to a number of fakes appearing on the market,and as a number of owners have contacted me re. Their bikes provenance, here’s what I go by and have learned in identifying a genuine Colnago.

Here’s a quote from a forum member (Edwardz) at lfgss.com “Back in the 1970s there were a number of very poor quality Colnagos sold in the US. They were of such mediocre build quality that Ernesto claimed they were counterfeits— I actually sat behind Ernesto on a flight many, many years ago but we chatted about cycling sport and not his frames. There was little to believe that they were not. Apparently there was a real mess in the distribution channels and with the “Italian bike boom” blazing— Colnagos were in the 1970s what Rolex watches were in the 1980s I have heard a number of stories about the fakes but with subcontracting and the Italian tradition to copy— who said it was a Chinese thing— its hard to spot the truth The mass of fakes and some not-so-stellar real Colnagos nearly knocked them off the map for a while” There are 3 brands that can claim lineage to Colnago legitimately.

The first is Alan, who made the Dual and Carbitubo for Colnago, as well as this Colnago Mapei GB frame set from my own collection. Odds wizard 250 crack 3. Rauler is the second brand, “One or both brothers worked for Colnago before starting up the Rauler marquee.

It is unsure just what the relationship with Ernesto was, but what is known that the name Rauler is from Raul and the first two letters of Ernesto, hence Rauler. Rauler became one of the top contract builders for Colnago and did much of the pantographing for them as well.” The Rauler brand was said to have developed pantographing for Colnago, and could be said to have inspired the intricate lug work on the Colnago Arabesque here you can compare to similarities between the two brands. The third brand is Celo Europa, these frames were made by Colnago for Celo Europa/Marcel Calborn in Southern California. The seat stay caps and lugging share similarities with the mid to late ’70’s Colnago Mexico. Celo Europa Colnago VAGACINI This brand is sometimes confused as Colnago built,and is actually from the Gemertse region of the Netherlands, and owned byRens van Ganzewinkel, who is the main man at Codagex, the Benelux Colnago distributor and the name Vagacini is an amalgamation of VAnGAnzewinkelCycleImportNederlandItalia ( Vagacini actually sprayed frames in silimar Colnago type decor, possibly using the same painters within the Benelux due to the Codagex connection, and associate has told me he bought a number of un painted Colnago Bi Titian frames ( 32 in one go! ) from Codagex on the strict grounds that he use their approved painter befor relasing onto the markettake this Colnago Master Panasonic Isotar decor. And the Vagacini one.

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56 cm, nutted brakes, top of bb guides, Clover in BB, Clamp on front derailleur, Braze on shift levers, Semi sloping fork crown has a club with rounded stem and COLNAGO. Downtube lug has the club cutout with rounded stem. Serial numbering only started for Colnago on USA-bound bikes when the CPSC started requiring tracking, etc. West Coast Cycles was importing Colnago at the time and the serial numbers.

Colnago Conic 94, 61cm frameset. Seatube C-T 61cm, 27.2mm.

Top tube c-c 58cm. Headtube 18cm. Stunning Wordperfect color scheme. Tubing is Columbus Brain for Colnago. Downtube is crimped - Conic. This is the 2nd Conic I've owned and had this for an Eroica build.

I still have my SLX Spiral Conic from 1991 and this rides very similar. See photos for condition. Paint is very good. The fork has some rust under the bridge but the chrome on the rear stays is VGC.

There are some small nicks but nothing too significant. Hard to show in photos due to color.

This is not an Art Gallery frame but you'd have trouble spotting blemishes from 6ft. International shipping available at standard USPS rates. Calculate from Seattle, WA, 98199.

The rise in interest in vintage Colnagos has led to a number of fakes appearing on the market,and as a number of owners have contacted me re. Their bikes provenance, here’s what I go by and have learned in identifying a genuine Colnago.

Here’s a quote from a forum member (Edwardz) at lfgss.com “Back in the 1970s there were a number of very poor quality Colnagos sold in the US. They were of such mediocre build quality that Ernesto claimed they were counterfeits— I actually sat behind Ernesto on a flight many, many years ago but we chatted about cycling sport and not his frames. There was little to believe that they were not. Apparently there was a real mess in the distribution channels and with the “Italian bike boom” blazing— Colnagos were in the 1970s what Rolex watches were in the 1980s I have heard a number of stories about the fakes but with subcontracting and the Italian tradition to copy— who said it was a Chinese thing— its hard to spot the truth The mass of fakes and some not-so-stellar real Colnagos nearly knocked them off the map for a while” There are 3 brands that can claim lineage to Colnago legitimately.

The first is Alan, who made the Dual and Carbitubo for Colnago, as well as this Colnago Mapei GB frame set from my own collection. Odds wizard 250 crack 3. Rauler is the second brand, “One or both brothers worked for Colnago before starting up the Rauler marquee.

It is unsure just what the relationship with Ernesto was, but what is known that the name Rauler is from Raul and the first two letters of Ernesto, hence Rauler. Rauler became one of the top contract builders for Colnago and did much of the pantographing for them as well.” The Rauler brand was said to have developed pantographing for Colnago, and could be said to have inspired the intricate lug work on the Colnago Arabesque here you can compare to similarities between the two brands. The third brand is Celo Europa, these frames were made by Colnago for Celo Europa/Marcel Calborn in Southern California. The seat stay caps and lugging share similarities with the mid to late ’70’s Colnago Mexico. Celo Europa Colnago VAGACINI This brand is sometimes confused as Colnago built,and is actually from the Gemertse region of the Netherlands, and owned byRens van Ganzewinkel, who is the main man at Codagex, the Benelux Colnago distributor and the name Vagacini is an amalgamation of VAnGAnzewinkelCycleImportNederlandItalia ( Vagacini actually sprayed frames in silimar Colnago type decor, possibly using the same painters within the Benelux due to the Codagex connection, and associate has told me he bought a number of un painted Colnago Bi Titian frames ( 32 in one go! ) from Codagex on the strict grounds that he use their approved painter befor relasing onto the markettake this Colnago Master Panasonic Isotar decor. And the Vagacini one.