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Originally Posted by Vintage_Cyclist
There were some Professionals, very early on, that were manufactured by Acer-Mex and were essentially rebranded Windsor Professionals.

I've read that there was some coordination between Cinelli and Acer-Mex on building Cinelli-like bicycles in Mexico. However those stories appear murky and range from official collaboration to stave off the Japanese, a defection involving a long-time Cinelli employee, to no connection at all.

My understanding is these early Acer-Mex built Professionals had Columbus frames with Campy dropouts/fork ends and Campy equipment.
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The ones I have seen have the steel campy RD with Shimano drops and old Tange tubing stickers..who knew, any others have comments/thoughts?
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