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1980s?? Medici pro strata road bike find

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Riding a 41 Super Deluxe
I recently bought a cool looking Medici road bike. In a short search I think it's from the 1980s. Just could not find much information as to the exact year. Does anyone hear have info on these or have a good source for further info?

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lug pattern appears to be BOCAMA Professional

investment cast fork crown & seat stay bridge appears Cinelli

Medici is a marketing badge

there were two or three California builders who produced the frames by contract

marque active 1978-84
your example appears late; would think it to come from the 1983-84 time

catalogue collection here; you should be able to find your model & year:



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Thanks for the help cabers. What's interesting that the brake wire is fished in the top tube and not the traditional 3 loops up top. It also has a chrome fork and chrome rear seat stays.

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Yeah, I remember when they were the hot bike back in the 80’s.
Carnivale’s Bike Rack in Huntington Beach was a Medici dealer.
You could walk in and custom order them, any way you wanted it.
 
If it is equipped as built, It would have to be late, as Juvela suggests, and I think likely '84. Shimano 105 didn't exist until 1982 and that odd grey finish is certainly a second or third iteration (maybe even later--105 got a reboot in '86) most likely the bike would have come with Shimano 105 clipped, semi-platform pedals. Look clipless pedals first came out in 1984 but didn't look like those, until about a year later after the ridiculously blocky first version sat unsold. (they remarketed the first ones as mtb pedals). I think the groupset will be your best bet for nailing down the year--that grey thing was one or two years --if memory serves me. (often not).
 
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