Let’s see your fake Colnagos (Fauxnago??)
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Let’s see your fake Colnagos (Fauxnago??)
I don’t mean yours personally. I don’t think anybody on this list would actually stick Colnago decals on a bike that isn’t one.
But lately I’ve been seeing them everywhere from eBay to Facebook to a bike rack outside of a portland strip club.
Here’s a great example:
I mean it’s a freaking DeRosa!!!
But lately I’ve been seeing them everywhere from eBay to Facebook to a bike rack outside of a portland strip club.
Here’s a great example:
I mean it’s a freaking DeRosa!!!
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I propose "Colnogo".
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I wanted this so badly that it even got an own thread here. It was plain stupid to miss out on.
In The Netherlands and even more in Belguim it seems to be a common pracice to slap Colnago super decals on anything, still on a real GIOS its kind of surprising
In The Netherlands and even more in Belguim it seems to be a common pracice to slap Colnago super decals on anything, still on a real GIOS its kind of surprising
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My Cornelo has absolutely no connection to Colnago but does feature crimped or corrugated tubing. Not quite finished in this pic, but you can see the lines along the main triangle
You can clearly see the crimping on the seat tube in this picture
You can clearly see the crimping on the seat tube in this picture
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Martelly got in a little "trouble" about this....
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I guess this one is a (early) Martens/Martinelly product. Three clovers on the triangle, without the little ball at the bottom. It's very light ansd has a Zeus 2000 fork as you see.
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I so love that paint....I almost had a frame painted that way, but ended up going with as as bright or brighter. i hope in a different way...originally to be kandy, but now pearlescent
gave the painter some artistic freedom so will be final will be a bit of a surprise.
gave the painter some artistic freedom so will be final will be a bit of a surprise.
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stunning paint job, inspired by Kleins of old?
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When I had my Moots frame built, I WAS going to opt out of the decals so I could put Schwinn ones on it so it won't attract attention or get stolen.
Then I felt stupid
Then I felt stupid
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There's that young man (who no longer is active here) who has that Lightspeed with the Huffy decals...
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A few years ago there was the guy who painted and built a gas pipe fake Italian... I don't remember if it was Colnago or DeRosa or whatever... Half the people here were patting him on the back, half the people were lighting torches...
I'm not in favor of such things- even if you're building it 'just for yourself' or 'just as a joke' or whatever- there's a good chance it's going to get away from you and someone is going to try representing it as what it says it is.
Around 30 years ago I bought a smashed guitar. The neck was in pieces, the body was beat up- someone had tried bolting a neck on to it, half the hardware was missing, and the case was covered with metallic RAMSA stickers. I spent a ton of money sending the body and headstock to Gibson- they had a Second shop put a new neck on it along with the original serial number. I peeled the stickers off the case and there was a FEAR stencil on it! So now I know this guitar was owned and probably smashed by a guitar player, or Lee Ving of FEAR! Who else would smash a Les Paul? I was pretty proud of it- even though it cost me much more than buying a beat up Les Paul Deluxe, because it was the guitar from the guy from FEAR. A few years after that I was talking to a friend about that- and he started asking questions about the guitar- It turns out it used to be HIS guitar. Back in the late 80s, his band got all liquored up one night, made a FEAR stencil and started stenciling everything in sight, he still had pallets in his band studio with the stencils on them. The other guitar player in his band broke the guitar. I played the guitar until the mid 00s and sold it- straight up telling the buyer it was 100% NOT a guitar from FEAR. Fast forward to about 2015, I get an IM on a guitar forum from a guy saying he bought my old guitar- the one that used to belong to Lee Ving. He said it was sold to him as Lee Ving's guitar. Either the guy who bought the guitar from me, or the guy after him had no qualms about using the FEAR stencil and the non-standard neck/build on the guitar to use the fake story.
I'm not in favor of such things- even if you're building it 'just for yourself' or 'just as a joke' or whatever- there's a good chance it's going to get away from you and someone is going to try representing it as what it says it is.
Around 30 years ago I bought a smashed guitar. The neck was in pieces, the body was beat up- someone had tried bolting a neck on to it, half the hardware was missing, and the case was covered with metallic RAMSA stickers. I spent a ton of money sending the body and headstock to Gibson- they had a Second shop put a new neck on it along with the original serial number. I peeled the stickers off the case and there was a FEAR stencil on it! So now I know this guitar was owned and probably smashed by a guitar player, or Lee Ving of FEAR! Who else would smash a Les Paul? I was pretty proud of it- even though it cost me much more than buying a beat up Les Paul Deluxe, because it was the guitar from the guy from FEAR. A few years after that I was talking to a friend about that- and he started asking questions about the guitar- It turns out it used to be HIS guitar. Back in the late 80s, his band got all liquored up one night, made a FEAR stencil and started stenciling everything in sight, he still had pallets in his band studio with the stencils on them. The other guitar player in his band broke the guitar. I played the guitar until the mid 00s and sold it- straight up telling the buyer it was 100% NOT a guitar from FEAR. Fast forward to about 2015, I get an IM on a guitar forum from a guy saying he bought my old guitar- the one that used to belong to Lee Ving. He said it was sold to him as Lee Ving's guitar. Either the guy who bought the guitar from me, or the guy after him had no qualms about using the FEAR stencil and the non-standard neck/build on the guitar to use the fake story.
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There's this one being sold as a frame on eBay, the seller is honest about it though. (Not that it's convincing anyway) The listing is titled "Bertoni frame & fork." The variety of Colnago decals complements the baby blue rattle can paint job perfectly. It's apparent the previous color was red, especially if you look at the NDS chainstay.
The obvious ones aren't bothersome, just rather interesting that someone did such a thing at some point in the frame's life. What does bug me when I see them are rare, vintage, NOS Colnago listings on eBay... I always wonder if it's authentic or if it's just a clever copy done to trick someone out of their money? Would such a thing be profitable, or would it be more trouble than it's worth to produce a cosmetically similar and convincing, but cheap replica?
The obvious ones aren't bothersome, just rather interesting that someone did such a thing at some point in the frame's life. What does bug me when I see them are rare, vintage, NOS Colnago listings on eBay... I always wonder if it's authentic or if it's just a clever copy done to trick someone out of their money? Would such a thing be profitable, or would it be more trouble than it's worth to produce a cosmetically similar and convincing, but cheap replica?
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I see more Bertoni forks on non-Bertoni bikes.
At co-ops, on CL, ebay etc.
At co-ops, on CL, ebay etc.
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So this is how it happens
skip to the very end. And that is a poseur
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My used Litespeed Tuscany came with some of the decals partially missing and so I put Schwinn Varsity decals on as an homage to what got me started in the world's greatest sport/hobby. I do not feel stupid.