Wow! thank's for the detailed info, 20y ago when I bought this bike, the owner of the cycle store did tell me that this bike was imported from Italy but some other guy told me "Naaaa it's Gardin who fabricated it..." so I never really went to the bottom of it until now. What I can say about it is that in my racing years, this bike was a really good road racing bike, short, almost as a track bike and very fast cornering, I did many good races with it, I know only 2 other guy's that still own a CR, one is totally original and in mint condition, do you think these bikes have a good $$$ value in the (almost) vintage market?