Originally Posted by
Salamandrine
That's cool.
You probably know this but just in case (and for the newbies out there): Cinelli were 26.4 not 26.0 until some time in the 90s. BITD you had to do either TTT bar
and stem, or Cinelli bar
and stem.
I've always heard Cinelli stem/Cinelli bar and 3ttt stem/3ttt bar, too. But this had an old-logo Cinelli Campione del Mondo bar mated to a 3ttt stem. When I separated the bar/stem, I didn't even scratch the sleeve. In any case, the bar is from the late 70s and the stem coming is a 26.4 so all should go together just fine.
I'm assuming that Cinelli fell in line with the 26.0 standard with the XA. I use either 1Rs or 1As exclusively, so I'm using 26.4s on every bike I own.
DD