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Old 06-30-11 | 06:27 PM
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Bikes: 1967 Paramount; 1982-ish Ron Cooper; 1978 Eisentraut "A"; two mid-1960s Cinelli Speciale Corsas; and others in various stages of non-rideability.

Originally Posted by dbakl
Wha? Confentes are certainly limited to whatever; they'll never be any more. While out of my league, certainly a holy grail to those who can afford them. Each is one of what, 220?
Assuming you mean Confente-built frames badged as such (as opposed to Confente-built frames badged as Masis) make that 135. I may be off, but not by more than low single digits.

Some of the all-time great flame wars, here in BF and elsewhere, involve Confente and his frames. It turns out that the Masi-California world and its flotsam and jetsam spawned a soap opera saga of epic proportions.

Fortunately, threads about old Cinellis spawn only legit questions from people who truly want to know more about then (like some of the posts in this thread), heavy sighing (ditto) and keyboards ruined by uncontrolled drooling.
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