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Old 05-04-15 | 09:36 AM
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[MENTION=358081]Sir_Name[/MENTION] no mine does not even have a hint of it. It may have been omitted or there was a time that they didn't use it. I have not seen older models of the Superissimo with it. But then there aren't very many complete photo sets of the Superissimo anyway. Often they are called supers even with the chrome head lugs. This has been a curious journey to understand Colnago models. If the sticker hadn't been on the bike, I wouldn't have known. The Superissimo looks like an afterthought sticker. Then there is the chrome application. My bike has only the chain stays chromed. Lack of paint on the seat stays indicates the lack of chrome much above the DO. Such is not the case with other Colnago models. The super has more chrome on the rear and less on the head tube. There there is the issue of chrome on the forks. My fork is 100% chrome, from the bottom of the steerer to the DO, yet most of it is painted. The chrome on the fork is not the rough kind you would expect under paint but polished. My bike is not a repaint.

Ernesto certainly went to town to make every bike scream Colnago with either the cutouts, embossing or paint schemes of the late 80/90's along with tubing shape. The OP's bike does not scream Colnago to me so I am wondering about the deficiencies and if there was a lower level model that had the shortcuts taken.
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