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01-24-12 | 07:39 PM

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Bikes: '39 Hobbs, '58 Marastoni, '73 Italian custom, '75 Wizard, '76 Wilier, '78 Tom Kellogg, '79 Colnago Super, '79 Sachs, '81 Masi Prestige, '82 Cuevas, '83 Picchio Special, '84 Murray-Serotta, '85 Trek 170, '89 Bianchi, '90 Bill Holland, '94 Grandis

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Originally Posted by Drillium Dude

Interesting - and I'd like to know more about this, because from my research there seems precious little information regarding the first of Colnago's "shaped" tubing. For instance, I have a goodly number of Bicycling magazines from '81 through '84 and not once do I see the Nuovo Mexico mentioned - not even in the Colnago ads themselves. In fact, in said ads the two bikes most presented are the early Profil CX and the Superissimo.

Any links you can share? I'd like to know a little more about the birth of the crimped-tube frames.

And for the OP: seems late '82 or any time in '83 dates your particular frame

DD

You know as much as I do. It's a topic worthy of close attention moving forward. There is some question, ironically for me, whether the first channeled tube builder was Colnago or - wait for it - Picchio. My early 80's Picchio has "rigidio" channeled tubing - including fork blades. though my frame post-dates the first Nuovo Mexicos.

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