malcala622

I was never a fan of silver or black bikes but damn this Cinelli is gorgeous

smd4

Thanks malcala622, I appreciate it.

The silver was my second choice; it was all the shop had in my size. I would have preferred the Laser Blue, thinking it would set off the chrome lugs better. But now that I've had it a few years, it's sorta grown on me a bit...Reading that it might have been the preferred color for earlier Cinelli's helped ease my mind a little too.

bikingshearer 

Celeste is never wrong for a Reparto Corsa Bianchi. Red is never wrong for a De Rosa. Molteni orange with blue panels is never wrong for a Merckx. That odd shade of green is never wrong for a Legnano. White is never wrong for a 1970s PX-10.

And silver is never wrong for a Cinelli SC.

smd4

Thanks bikingshearer. I appreciate and definitely enjoy the color today. I hope that’s apparent in the way I’ve chosen to accent it.

bamboobike4

Erminio Chirico also built Cinellis, directly under Andreas Cinelli, from about 1970 until leaving in 1984 to produce forks under a process patented in 1984 (For many Italian brands). Some brevet and North American market SC's were built at the Chirico factory, in Bussero on the outskirts of Milan. Sounds like Camilotto came in right after Erminio left, Erminio "apprenticed" for 14 years.

Enrico Chirico would be a bit older than Cino Cinelli, and his son Erminio would be a bit older than Andrea Cinelli. Luigi Chirico took over in 1987.

Always wanted a Chirico bike.

My '89 SC was not a favorite, but my '91 was a cream-colored beauty, now owned by "Colnago John" Barron. (For all I know, he already flipped it.)
I like the silver color, have the Chirico-made Equipe, but have always coveted the China Blue. Someday, perhaps, in a 54cm.

smd4

One on-line Cinelli timeline I've seen says Mario built frames from 1988 - 1991. Another timeline says he built every Supercorsa from 1978 to the early 1990s.

smd4

Thank you.
I only have one bike. I first got into bikes in the mid-1980s, and at that time, Dura Ace was functionally far superior to Campy, because of their two-year head start in index shifting. When I built the bike 20 years ago Dura Ace was still functionally and aesthetically (to me) better than Campy. I do like some vintage Campy, like Croce D’aune, but those parts aren’t top-of-the-line, like Dura Ace.

Wileyone 

Why is "your book" always wrong?

3alarmer 

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...I have a Richard Sachs frame that was built to order for someone at the Toga Bike shop in NYC, so early 70's.
I got it used, as a frame, from a local guy here. I built it out with Suntour mostly, but nobody I knew then was really into "full groupsets".

So I just used what I remembered works well and was sort of period correct.

It's a mistake to conflate the price of components from this era (early 70's), with either quality or functionality.

smd4

What an intelligent and witty response!

Sun Tour has their fans. But obviously they were never No. 1 or No. 2 when I got into bikes. No matter what “book” you choose to read.

repechage

there was a guy I raced against that avoided Campagnolo AND Shimano on principle.
Suntour, Sugino, tange, SR bar and stem, a few Zeus components, Weinmann 500 brakes, you get the idea. Would have been better had he cleaned his bike more often.

smd4

Lol!!

I get what you’re saying. Sun Tour did have some nice looking stuff (even if they didn’t make all of it). Oh..and we can’t forget their contribution to rear derailleur design…

smd4

Replaced the black hoods with the white. Holy crap, it was hard to remove the original black ones! Got them off without tearing them so I can use them down the road.
I saw a GCN video that recommended using hand gel to reinstall the hoods; I used ArmorAll just as effectively and probably better for the rubber.

billytwosheds 

Wait, you went and dug up this thread to troll his bike build?

For how far above us you claim to be, you sure like to play in the mud.

BMC_Kid 

Beautiful bike, well done! Love all the details and the silver and chrome really play off each other very nicely too. Those little details will go unnoticed by most but it's fun when building a bike up to spend the time and make it your own.

I do not think it is sacrilegious at all to put Japanese components on Italian frames. It was done all the time back in the day due to the quality of their components. I did it myself many times with both Dura-Ace and Superbe Pro. Are you running this as a 7-speed?

BMC_Kid 

I removed a full Superbe Pro 8-speed group from my Zullo and a 7400/7700 Dura-Ace 8-speed group from my Tesch - both replaced with 11-speed Campy for daily use.

With both groups having DT shifters, I felt that the Superbe Pro was just a smidge smoother in engagement than the DA, IMHO. The brakes likewise had just slightly better modulation and feel than the DA.

Both groups were jewel-like in finish, and depending on the component and your own sense of design, were equal in my opinion.

Now just need to find that special frame(s) to hang these parts on...

smd4

Thanks BMC_Kid. Except for the odd 7400 parts, it's 9-speed 7700.

smd4

You did--thank you.
Have you built up any bikes with Shimano parts?

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smd4

So after a couple years searching for NOS 7402 brake hoods, improbably a set in white came up, and as noted above, after a bit of a struggle, I installed them this past weekend. This is what they look like:



The black ones will be stored for use another day--maybe when I get sick of cleaning the white ones! But for now, the whites add the final splash of '80s glam to the bike. I still have two different brands of leather tape, which I may install this winter when there isn't anything else to do.

icemilkcoffee 

It's crying out for white finishing tape there..... although I'm sure you scoured the earth to find that Cinelli logo black tape

smd4

Like hen’s teeth, I’m tellin’ ya!

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smd4

How very kind of you to say.

But I think that saddle and bar covering looks like absolute $h*t, sort of like plucked chicken skin. I'm also not running bivalent hubs or Cinelli clipless pedals. Not everything Cinelli did was a home run.

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