Great story on the bike.

I bought it from an extremely nice, decent, honest young guy who listed it on the DC CL. A stand-up guy, that was great to deal with.

He didn't know much about vintage bikes, but was selling it at the suggestion of a local Cinelli dealer. He was planning on using it on a long tour on the West Coast, and then to use it for a job that involved watering trees via bicycle! The Cinelli rep suggested that he sell the old one and buy a brand new carbon rig to tour on

It gets better. The young man received the bike from a friend in Texas who called him and told him that he saw a nice old bike in the back of a scrapper's truck. The young man sent his friend $100 to ship it to him!

So, this bike has now been saved twice! And, though I paid a decent sum of money for it, the young guy and I both got great deals!