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Old 10-22-22 | 04:56 AM
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Just jumping in with one more piece of evidence of the Ciocc/Concorde connection. A customer ordered a Ciocc frameset from the shop where I worked back then. The distributor took the order, but some time later got in touch to tell me that per a recent change, Ciocc framesets were no longer available under that name but would be designated Concorde framesets henceforth. The customer still wanted it, so we waited for his Concorde frame to show up. Took something like six months, as I recall.

And a thought about the aluminum fork. Looking for something more like the original fork is understandable, but you might find that you enjoy the ride with the Kinesis fork in the meantime, if you keep an open mind about it. I've always found that, for a given wheelbase (e.g., the Italian criterium geometry bikes like that Concorde are pretty close to track bike geometry and are always going to give a hard ride), the supposed differences between carbon, aluminum, and steel forks in "comfort" are well within confirmation bias territory.
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