New to Me -- Cervelo Super Prodigy 18.6 pounds!
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New to Me -- Cervelo Super Prodigy 18.6 pounds!
I couldn't believe my luck today running into this Cervelo Steelie! I am stoked! 
Pics now added below. Anyone know anything about these? The guy I bought it from said he thought only 100 were made, and most of those were in Canada. Could that be true?
I couldn't believe it weighed only 18.7 pounds.
Pics now added below. Anyone know anything about these? The guy I bought it from said he thought only 100 were made, and most of those were in Canada. Could that be true?
I couldn't believe it weighed only 18.7 pounds.
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Interesting fact from a former post:
"This info was on the Cervelo web site last year:
"Some time ago during the production of the Prodigy, Columbus supplied us with incorrect tubesets. Instead of a Prodigy tubeset, most of the tubes were dimensioned according to our Renaissance tubeset spec. At the time we didn't make too much of a fuss about it, and we painted them as normal Prodigies. But word got out that there were a few "SuperProdigies" out there, and those customers who through weighing their frames figured out they were one of the lucky ones gave us great feedback on their frames. So for 2003, we will come clean and tell it like it is. So we now offer the SuperProdigy as the new standard for our steel road frame. It still has the great combination of stiffness and handling, not to mention the feel of steel. But while the Prodigy was already the lightest steel frame in its class, the SuperProdigy is simply in a class of its own. Coupled with our new superlight Columbus Muscle full-carbon fork, this new frameset can rival most Aluminum framesets in lightness."
"This info was on the Cervelo web site last year:
"Some time ago during the production of the Prodigy, Columbus supplied us with incorrect tubesets. Instead of a Prodigy tubeset, most of the tubes were dimensioned according to our Renaissance tubeset spec. At the time we didn't make too much of a fuss about it, and we painted them as normal Prodigies. But word got out that there were a few "SuperProdigies" out there, and those customers who through weighing their frames figured out they were one of the lucky ones gave us great feedback on their frames. So for 2003, we will come clean and tell it like it is. So we now offer the SuperProdigy as the new standard for our steel road frame. It still has the great combination of stiffness and handling, not to mention the feel of steel. But while the Prodigy was already the lightest steel frame in its class, the SuperProdigy is simply in a class of its own. Coupled with our new superlight Columbus Muscle full-carbon fork, this new frameset can rival most Aluminum framesets in lightness."
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03-12-20, 06:25 PM
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Nice, looks to be 2002, I have a pristine White 2001 pre reveal edition Prodigy. Lots of roomers about these frames, many say they were made by Hugh Black at True North Cycles. True North out of Kitchener Ontario Canada built some of them...top notch guys. Hugh Black built a total of about 50 Renaissance frames over a 2 or 3 year period. They were made from the custom Columbus tubes that Phil White had designed, with 35mm top and down tubes that are really thin wall. But the Prodigy frames (and a few 'Super Prodigy') are said to have been made by Toby Stanton at Hot Tubes in Worchester Mass.
The last steel frame raced at the very top of the sport when Team CSC chose the Cervélo Super Prodigy for the 2003 edition of Paris-Roubaix.
The last steel frame raced at the very top of the sport when Team CSC chose the Cervélo Super Prodigy for the 2003 edition of Paris-Roubaix.
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