Jesper
Wore out three sets of tires already!
I am receiving a plethora of frames (Colnago, Lusa, Liberti, Libertas) coming in the back door. I'll try to post them in separate threads before they head out the front door.
Figured I would add a recently acquired Spanish Goi-Contini frameset with crimped style tubing. I believe all the "Cinelli" looking stuff is fake (logo color scheme is different); but that's purely an assumption without any knowledge regarding a possible business relationship. Not sure how they were able to copy the design, but I don't think Cinelli has anything to do with this marque unless there was some sort of licensing agreement which may be why the logo colors are different than what Cinelli had traditionally used.
I believe these models were made with Columbus crimped Nivacrom tubing (no decal to prove it on this frame), and I've yet to see an image of the frame tubing decal when viewing other Contini examples when a decal is present. If the the frame tubing is Nivacrom over Cyclex ( is GILCO crimped tubing still Cyclex pre- and post-'86?) then it would probably be very late 80s to early 90s since Nivacrom was introduced circa '86, but it may not have been widely for bike frames until a years later. Even it it is Nivacrom tubing, I have no idea as to the actual tubeset model. I purchased it fairly cheap because I questioned the fork's origin (even though I like the design). I have seen forks of a different design with the "Cinelli" logo on the crown. Goi-Contini website states that they have been around for 42 years (circa 1980).
More photos forthcoming.
Figured I would add a recently acquired Spanish Goi-Contini frameset with crimped style tubing. I believe all the "Cinelli" looking stuff is fake (logo color scheme is different); but that's purely an assumption without any knowledge regarding a possible business relationship. Not sure how they were able to copy the design, but I don't think Cinelli has anything to do with this marque unless there was some sort of licensing agreement which may be why the logo colors are different than what Cinelli had traditionally used.
I believe these models were made with Columbus crimped Nivacrom tubing (no decal to prove it on this frame), and I've yet to see an image of the frame tubing decal when viewing other Contini examples when a decal is present. If the the frame tubing is Nivacrom over Cyclex ( is GILCO crimped tubing still Cyclex pre- and post-'86?) then it would probably be very late 80s to early 90s since Nivacrom was introduced circa '86, but it may not have been widely for bike frames until a years later. Even it it is Nivacrom tubing, I have no idea as to the actual tubeset model. I purchased it fairly cheap because I questioned the fork's origin (even though I like the design). I have seen forks of a different design with the "Cinelli" logo on the crown. Goi-Contini website states that they have been around for 42 years (circa 1980).
More photos forthcoming.
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