Originally Posted by
gomango
Weren't these bikes (Mexico) named as reference to Eddy Merckx's hour record? Also, we were looking at some older pictures of Supers at the shop and we can't find any with tt braze-ons before 1978. EjustE- this may explain some of the confusion with three tt guides- it might be easily explained as a "math" issue when they put on three, not two. We also were picking through our feeble older minds to remember when we started to see "Colnago" on the seat caps. Late 1970's maybe. Again, I'd buy it if it fits. Very cool project waiting to happen. There is an early 80's Super on our CL, but I've already been put on a bike diet till spring.
Yeah. The Colnago Mexico bikes were indeed that, first produced in 1975, made in Italy. With "mexican" above, I was referring to a slew of Colnago (and Gios, among other Italian brands, but the Gios case got a lot of ink) semi-quasi-legal copies produced in Mexico in the late 70s and early 80s... Not bad bikes, the frame material was the same, but attention to detail was not.