Originally Posted by
clubman
As I understand it, Cinelli annual production was modest at best. Maybe a few hundred frames per year in the early 60's? I don't think too many frames sat around but stranger things have happened.
back then, models didn't change all the time but stayed. Delivery from Italy was notoriously unreliable - as late as in the 80ies german mail order pioneers Brügelmann saw it fit to aknowledge in their catalogue that they didn't know when, in what version and in what colour the frames they had ordered would arrive.
It wasn't unusual for dealers to order a couple of frames and just have them hanging in their shops until a buyer was found, which could be tomorrow or next year.