Colnago original or fake ?
07-28-15, 02:04 AM
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Colnago original or fake ?
Hello People,
In Ukraine i find this is frame. I believe that this is real Colnago
but i need true.
Tube looks like ellipse, seatpost size 27 mm, bottom bracket ITA standart. But i can't find any IDs and colnago clove.
Thanks.
In Ukraine i find this is frame. I believe that this is real Colnago
but i need true.Tube looks like ellipse, seatpost size 27 mm, bottom bracket ITA standart. But i can't find any IDs and colnago clove.
Thanks.
07-28-15, 02:36 AM
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I think it is probably a FAKE 
I have never seen a Colnago with the circular cutouts that you have on the seat tube lug, and head tube lugs.
According to the Colnago Super Timeline:
Velo-Retro: Colnago Super Timeline
1979 - "Colnago" engraved at the top of the Seat Stays.
1982 - Under bottom bracket cable routing.
There also seem to be 2 extra points on the front of the headtube lugs.
Do you have photos of the bottom of the bottom bracket?
Also the brand/engraving on all 4 dropouts?
The pink I see on the rear brake calliper, is that paint, or is it a reflection?
It may well be a nice quality frame, but not a Colnago.
I have never seen a Colnago with the circular cutouts that you have on the seat tube lug, and head tube lugs.
According to the Colnago Super Timeline:
Velo-Retro: Colnago Super Timeline
1979 - "Colnago" engraved at the top of the Seat Stays.
1982 - Under bottom bracket cable routing.
There also seem to be 2 extra points on the front of the headtube lugs.
Do you have photos of the bottom of the bottom bracket?
Also the brand/engraving on all 4 dropouts?
The pink I see on the rear brake calliper, is that paint, or is it a reflection?
It may well be a nice quality frame, but not a Colnago.
07-28-15, 03:39 AM
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07-28-15, 07:50 AM
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Sometimes people round here can be quick to call something fake but I think they're spot on with this one. I own a Colnago and it has all the usual signs like clover cut outs on the lug, brake boss, bottom bracket as well as Colnago stamped on the chain stays. This one has none of that. Even the spool between the lower stays looks nothing like the spool on a Colnago (when they used a spool shape).
Maybe there's some rogue Colango frame that was built without any of this but I doubt it. I'm siding with this one being a fake.
Maybe there's some rogue Colango frame that was built without any of this but I doubt it. I'm siding with this one being a fake.
07-28-15, 07:53 AM
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I like the turkey levers on a (supposedly) high end bike, the rad cabling job, and the rear skewer facing the wrong way.
07-28-15, 07:54 AM
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Wrong lugs/BB, wrong tubing sticker, unconventional decal placement and lumpy braze work all scream FAKE!
07-28-15, 09:52 AM
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Not Colonago looks to be nicer mid level frame but it appears to have some damage on the top tube and some various dings deep scrartches. The components look to be some random junk that doesn't go with match the frame. I would say not a lot of value and not really worth building up in it's current condition. To me the fact that it is semi junk in it's current condition overides the issue of wether it's fake. I wouldn't take this one on as project even if it was real.
07-28-15, 11:02 AM
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Fake.
This Columbus sticker states that the frameset is Gilco tubing, which it clearly isn't
The rear drops would be stamped with either "Colnago" or "Campagnolo"
This Columbus sticker states that the frameset is Gilco tubing, which it clearly isn't
The rear drops would be stamped with either "Colnago" or "Campagnolo"
07-28-15, 01:20 PM
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07-28-15, 02:43 PM
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Other than the decals, there's nothing to suggest that is a Colnago.
07-28-15, 03:04 PM
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