repechage

Thinking, this frame set really presents as altered, modificati.

No text I can see in the seat stay caps, but the under the bottom bracket shift cable routing is later, Silva, an Italian company that made many braze-on bits came out with those "noodles" in '80-81.
Even in 1979 Colnago was using Campagnolo braze-on cable guides on the top of the bottom bracket shell.
Painted fork is odd, Colnago appreciated the economy of chrome forks requiring only a size match for the frame pretty early.

Cwurfel

So now we are saying all forks on Colnago’s pre 79 were chrome?

Cwurfel

I’m actually considering that I should just leave this bike outside by the trash bins for the homeless guys to take, it’s basically garbage...

Last ride 76 

Last year, I rode up to a scruffy looking man riding a beater bike on the local MUP, who was carrying a bunch of grocery bags. We were stopped at an intersection waiting for some cars to pass. He looked down at my bike, and asked me how I liked it. It was a Kestrel 200Sci... not exactly common even in C&V. I never found out where his knowledge came from, but he knew more about Kestrel history bitd than I did. As my daughter was waiting for me at home, we only rode side by side for a few minutes. He said he was working, and living in a tent nearby, due to "landlord problems". My daughter asked me if I had given him money, but I wasn't carrying any, and he certainly didn't ask.

I expected to run into him again, but never have.


If all you can take from what's been posted, is "it's basically garbage" perhaps you should put it out by the trash. The guy who finds it, might know more about the bike than you, and might appreciate it more.

unterhausen

this thread seems to have outlived any usefulness, closing