Fake Colnago ID request
04-26-23, 12:19 PM
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Interesting mystery.
04-26-23, 12:29 PM
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Looks like a frame put together by some amateur.... Or maybe a poor repair??? Obvious errors and lack of details that a real frame builder would have addressed. Compare the filing on the dropouts vs. the hacked fork ends, especially the right one.
Most better quality frames had a radius filed into the top of the lug and seat tube not square cut like this one. Also note, the lug points are not thinned, and the poor quality workmanship over all. Anybody could have bought the tubing plus frame components and brazed it together... The most glaring thing is the Columbus sticker on the back of the seat tube which could have been done by whoever painted the frame!!!
Reminds me of something done in the East Bloc before the downfall...
verktyg
Most better quality frames had a radius filed into the top of the lug and seat tube not square cut like this one. Also note, the lug points are not thinned, and the poor quality workmanship over all. Anybody could have bought the tubing plus frame components and brazed it together... The most glaring thing is the Columbus sticker on the back of the seat tube which could have been done by whoever painted the frame!!!
Reminds me of something done in the East Bloc before the downfall...
verktyg
many of the 'defects' you point out you'll find on any number of Italian frames - even ones from the top shelf vendors.
who would bother to fake a frame that's not worth much anyways? just don't see the point...
04-26-23, 01:16 PM
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yes. In 1979, colnago went from a simple tube or cylinder to a spool shaped “chain stay reinforcing bridge.”
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I stutter. The 4th kind of stutter is the inability to come up with a particular word or set of words.
the harder a stutterer tries, the more anxious we become until it is hopeless.
thank you for knowing what I was trying to say.
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