Originally Posted by
oldbobcat
The Cinelli brand was acquired by a US corporation in the 1990s, when they began marketing a succession of decent but unremarkable Asian-built bikes alongside the classic lugged steel Supercorsa. Over the last couple of year they seem to have upped their game, but they're basically following the example of Haro's handling of the Masi brand.
While this bike could indeed be a Cinelli, it is not particularly special, and the powercoating is tacky and unnecessarily thick.
Can you give anymore detail on this? In 1997 Cinelli and Columbus tubing merged to form Gruppo S.r.l., both under Antonio Colombo, who is still alive and still running both. Is there some level of ownership over this? I had seen information that suggested that they were still making their aluminum frames in Milan until 2008 or 2009.
Edit: not that the bike in this thread is aluminum, just asking about your statement that things were Asian built.