Originally Posted by aixaix

The Olympia could use a bath. I rode it in a downpour the weekend before last and haven't washed it since. Also, it is the bike I've put more miles on than all my others combined. The finish is rough, but pretty much every blemish is my doing which makes it me not want to repaint it.
I'm not crazy about the Colt either.

It isn't a repaint, as CdM will attest. When I bought the frame it had never been painted. It was built for a bike show at the NY Coliseum around 1981, to demonstrate a frame jig that Columbus was selling. Columbus had just bought Cinelli, and the frame was made by one of Cinelli's frame builders. (He might have built it at the show in NY. This is an unconfirmed and unlikely rumor which, if true, would make this the only Cinelli built in the USA). Proteus bought the jig and was given the unpainted frame. They never did anything with it, other than move it from place to place in the shop. Eventually it got sold to a vendor who sold it to me. The paint it wears is the only paint it has ever had, thus not a repaint.