What is this? Colnago?
10-26-22, 12:27 PM
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What is this? Colnago?
This thing is kind of a mystery, i dont own it, but i personally became curious. It painted like a soviet track bike and was painted like that during soviet times. Didnt find any colnago that looks like this. Dont have any better pics.
10-26-22, 02:22 PM
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My guess: Russian CHOPT = "Sport" (our capital H is as close to their "p" as I can easily get).
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Not sure if yours is one, but I remember reading that Colnago made bikes for the Soviet Olympic team. What I could find on Google shows them clearly marked as Colnagos, however.
C*OPT (forum won't let me use the proper Cyrillic symbol so I substituted a *) is a Russian bike manufacturer, but they don't seem to have used "Colnago style" symbols on their lugs.
I'm going to take a wild guess and say it's a Colnago track bike that someone "rebranded" as a C*OPT...possibly because they admired the Russian bikes and weren't familiar with the Colnagos? Sort of the inverse of folks over here who throw Colnago stickers on any lugged steel bike they rescue from a garage sale.
Fully prepared to be wrong here, and posting to subsribe because you've made me curious.
Some links I found with some information:
https://www.forzabikes.co.nz/blog/857375
https://www.pedalroom.com/bike/colna...-team-ed-21795
Soviet Era Russian Track Frame Repair at Yellow Jersey
https://www.pedalroom.com/bike/xb3-track-bike-11755
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/275811/
https://progettopistavintage.blogspo...rack-bike.html
https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/...k-bike.277628/
C*OPT (forum won't let me use the proper Cyrillic symbol so I substituted a *) is a Russian bike manufacturer, but they don't seem to have used "Colnago style" symbols on their lugs.
I'm going to take a wild guess and say it's a Colnago track bike that someone "rebranded" as a C*OPT...possibly because they admired the Russian bikes and weren't familiar with the Colnagos? Sort of the inverse of folks over here who throw Colnago stickers on any lugged steel bike they rescue from a garage sale.
Fully prepared to be wrong here, and posting to subsribe because you've made me curious.
Some links I found with some information:
https://www.forzabikes.co.nz/blog/857375
https://www.pedalroom.com/bike/colna...-team-ed-21795
Soviet Era Russian Track Frame Repair at Yellow Jersey
https://www.pedalroom.com/bike/xb3-track-bike-11755
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/275811/
https://progettopistavintage.blogspo...rack-bike.html
https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/...k-bike.277628/
10-26-22, 03:16 PM
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Those club cutouts on the frame look more like angels than clubs, the BB shell not withstanding.
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Cool. Love those wheels
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Not sure if yours is one, but I remember reading that Colnago made bikes for the Soviet Olympic team. What I could find on Google shows them clearly marked as Colnagos, however.
C*OPT (forum won't let me use the proper Cyrillic symbol so I substituted a *) is a Russian bike manufacturer, but they don't seem to have used "Colnago style" symbols on their lugs.
I'm going to take a wild guess and say it's a Colnago track bike that someone "rebranded" as a C*OPT...possibly because they admired the Russian bikes and weren't familiar with the Colnagos? Sort of the inverse of folks over here who throw Colnago stickers on any lugged steel bike they rescue from a garage sale.
Fully prepared to be wrong here, and posting to subsribe because you've made me curious.
C*OPT (forum won't let me use the proper Cyrillic symbol so I substituted a *) is a Russian bike manufacturer, but they don't seem to have used "Colnago style" symbols on their lugs.
I'm going to take a wild guess and say it's a Colnago track bike that someone "rebranded" as a C*OPT...possibly because they admired the Russian bikes and weren't familiar with the Colnagos? Sort of the inverse of folks over here who throw Colnago stickers on any lugged steel bike they rescue from a garage sale.
Fully prepared to be wrong here, and posting to subsribe because you've made me curious.
06-03-23, 02:22 AM
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Did some research locally, apparently this was most likely a regular colnago track bike that was modified to resemble a pursuit sport git to compete in the national ussr competions. It was made to look like a sport to cheat as one of the rules of the competions were that they had to be done on domestic made bicycles.
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Those clubs scream fake colnago to me, you might try the Colnago Owners Group on Facebook as my brother was one of their 24,000 members.
