Originally Posted by
atriot
Here's a pic of the fork crown. I think I'll buy it as I've been looking for a ciocc for awhile. It certainly isn't cheap but it's less than a nashbar san cristobal replica. Thanks for your insights, if anything else comes to mind please let me know.
Yes it's the early style forkcrown with the "club" panto where the silhouette of the club shape is debossed and the 'suits of card' are raised...interesting to see that version of the club graphic used on the headtube, I'd guess that this example is just a bit later San Cristobal to mine, but I bet it's definitely built by Giovanni himself. And no argument that it's in MUCH better condition than mine was...and to drive that point here are a few more pics of the 'rust bucket' for DD and whoever can stand to see them...it's looking much better now, but had to lose all the chrome.
Also a pic of a later forkcrown and how that panto looks for comparison to the early fork...I also own a late '80s-early '90s Ciocc and I like it just fine, it's got a beautiful re-paint from Ed Litton
