Originally Posted by
Paintking
Himespau,
I haven't seen any definitive way to date Concordes. Besides the two catalogs you mention it seems the only way to guess the year of your bike is to look at the build and any original components. I'd say your guess of 1990 is pretty good. What's on your head tube, decal or metal head badge?
Decal. And since I built it up from the frame (with a non-matching Tange fork I sourced elsewhere), that's pretty much all I have to go on. Person I bought it from wasn't original owner. It does have the raised Italian colors saying it was contract made in Italy (by whoever they had doing it that year), but that's about it.
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Bikes: 1996 Eddy Merckx Titanium EX, 1989/90 Colnago Super(issimo?) Piu(?), 1990 Concorde Aquila(hit by car while riding), others in build queue "when I get the time"