Help Identifying Frameset
11-09-22 | 01:37 AM
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Help Identifying Frameset
Hey. I could use some help identifying this frame. Any help would be appreciated. So, distinguishing characteristics:
- Steel (obviously)
- Either fillet-brazed or TIG-welded then filed smooth
- Ritchey Type 74 drop outs
- older Cinelli-style bridge
- extended seattube
- recessed rear brake cable routing in and out on top of the toptube
- two holes for a badge on the headtube (right higher than left when facing it)
- very sleek 1" aero fork
- 27.0-27.2mm seatpost diameter
- English BB
- No visible Serial Number
- 700c/700c
- frame and fork weigh about 2.7kg (55cm geo)
Last edited by URCinelliIsFake; 11-09-22 at 10:07 AM.
11-09-22 | 09:29 AM
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Format?
Serial number is not visible under the paint. Frame originally came from Italy, but that's no guarantee that it's Italian. It is a racing frame 700c/700c - if that's what you mean by "format"
11-09-22 | 09:43 AM
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Under that thick coat of paint, it looks like a Ritchey dropout. It's not a Ritchey, though.
11-09-22 | 09:49 AM
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Thanks. It does have Ritchey dropouts. But yeah, lots of makers used Ritchey drops. I'm thinking it might be powder coat, which I'm going to remove.
11-09-22 | 10:07 AM
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Yes, it has Ritchey Type 74 dropouts
11-09-22 | 10:09 AM
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I appreciate that it had to be said. I wish it was a fake Cinelli; then I could have it melted down.
11-09-22 | 10:10 AM
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11-09-22 | 07:13 PM
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