KonAaron Snake 

Around 68ish…built by Galmozzi. Cinelli also built some early Pinarellos. We don’t see a whole lot about the earlier ones.

P!N20

Ah, hence 'rooster'. Yes, Pinarellos prior to 1980 don't surface all that often.

darkmoon

How about a carloadful of Pinarello?

SJX426 

@KonAaron Snake - AH now there is C&V! Great looking bike!

P!N20

Replying from the Tommasini Lounge: https://www.bikeforums.net/22706398-post1080.html

Beautiful! Do you know much about the Acciaio model? I've never heard of it. Interested in the serial number if it has one.

Great jersey too - the De Marchi one with the embroidered text. That was a big inspiration for one I had made up:

Tiger1

Beautiful top! I am interested on embroidering a plain De Marchi top, can you do that for one piece only?

Back to the Acciaio, it is a generic description that Pinarello was using for its earlier models. I have a .doc file with the steel history but I cannot attach it, here's a screenshot of the page referring to the Acciaio.

P!N20

The chain stitch embroidery is done by hand using a particular machine, so the less the better! The hard part is finding someone that can do it. Here's a thread I started when I first went down the rabbit hole: https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...lettering.html

Thanks for the info on the Acciaio, very interesting.

T-Mar

Unless the frame has been modified, I'm sceptical about the stated era. Recessed brake bolt, brazed-on brake cable tunnels and brazed-on bottle bosses don't fit with that era.

Tiger1

Well, the Nuovo Record parts are all pat 75 and earlier, so it's likely this was a slightly later model than 1970. It;s certainly pre-1975 according to the brake tunnels on top of the bottom bracket. We checked the details with a very well informed Pinarello collector (also from Ausralia) at the time of purchase and the consensus was that it is between 1970 - 1975.

I have emailed Pinarello with detailed pictures but typically no reply...

T-Mar

You statement, "brakes tunnels on top of the bottom bracket" does not make any sense. Did you mean brake tunnels on the top of the top tube? Or did you mean gear cables on top of the bottom bracket?


Regardless, in the absence of datable literature, my preferred reference, especially for high grade models, are datable race photos. During 1975-1977, Pinarello supplied bicycles to the Jollj Ceramica team. There are lots of photos of these bicycles, particularly from 1975 when Fausto Bertoglio provided Pinarello with their first victory in the Giro d'Italia. There is even a photo of one of his 1975 team bicycles on the Pinarello website. The frame differs from yours in several features, notably the methods for securing the brake calipers, rear brake cable housing and shift lever.


Examining just one of these features more closely, the top tube cable housing tunnels, I can find no cases of these in use by Pinarello prior to 1978. The 1975-1977 Jollj Ceramica team bicycles use cable housing clamps. Had Pinarello been using brazed-on tunnels prior to 1978, I just can't imagine the team mechanics not demanding that they be used on the team bicycles. They make maintenance so much easier, especially when you have to look at twelve bicycles every night.


Features typically trickle down from pro team bicycles to consumer bicycles, with prototypes having been field tested by the pro peloton for a year. In the case of Pinarello, it is possible that hey introduced some low risk innovations simultaneously at the pro and consumer levels but its atypical for things to happen the other way around.


So, while your bicycle could be from the stated era, I'm sceptical that it hasn't been modified by a previous owner.

Tiger1

Just realised what I wrote, I obviously meant gear cables on top of the bottom bracket. This I was told is a pre-1975 detail on Pinarellos.

Yes it may have been repaired after a crash or modified. It may be a bike built for Pinarello by another builder at that hazy time. It is certainly high-end with the full bike weighing at 9.1kgs and featuring adjustable rear-wheel mounts among other features (forgive my ignorance of the correct term). It also features a very racy geometry being quite long n low that makes it quite fast, with a faster feeling than my much newer Tommasini.

i am proud to have scored on it among other achievements the top Strava time last year on the longest L’Eroica descent, the iconic Volpaia. It was also the 24th best time of all time (against contemporary bikes) out of over 4000 logs.

in short it’s a bike I really love and massively enjoy riding.

cheffyjay

I've had two Pinarello bikes. Both had the decals faded away. The guy from whom I bought this one said he worked at a Pinarello dealer and they had problems with decals for a few years. Anyone else hear this?

P!N20

Pinarello decals flaking off? Nope, not at all, never, noooooo.

georges1

My Pinarello Stelvio project