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Old 07-19-25 | 09:06 PM
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Originally Posted by bulgie
That ebay fork would get you on the road, but the domed end on the blade at the dropout are all wrong aesthetically.

Oh no, I got that wrong! I could edit it to remove my error but I wanted to "show my work". Very few Italian builders used domed fork and stay ends by then ('80s), so I assumed Ciöcc was like the rest, but then after a little googlage I found this, an '84 Designer, for sale on ebay UK. The pics clearly show the domed ends.




So, that ebay fork you linked to actually looks like a match.
This Cromor frame may be what somebody labelled as a "Designer '84" for sale in UK, but it's bears little similarity to those (same decal but on the front TOP TUBE where it belongs) as sold in the US!
I have never seen a Ciocc with that style of fork, even on the lowest "budget" models sold in the US, for one thing is has no panto on the crown.
I have doubts about this being a legit Ciocc frame, and more so about that fork...tho ironically it could very well be Cromor tubing!
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