Freddy Maertens 80/81 Colnago Super

Posted on July 1, 2020 by saarf

This is a dream bike , Freddy Maertens Colnago Super , one of the first frames with rib innovation .

Fully round tubed top tube , down tube and seat tube , with ribs running from the bottom bracket to rear drop outs inside the chain stays …

Colnago C64 Disc Gold Private Collection

Posted on November 9, 2018 by saarf

Whilst at the Rouleur London show I stopped by the Colnago stand , and managed to get around the limited edition Colnago C64 Disc Gold Private Collection…

One of only 64 C64 Gold Private Collection models , to celebrate Mr Colnago’s 86 th birthday and 64 years of the Colnago company , only available via the factory at roughly £15,000 .

The most advanced of the ‘C’ range yet , with wider tyre clearance and disc brakes …

Eddy Merckx Team GAN collection

Posted on January 27, 2017 by saarf

This collection has been the talk of a few vintage bike forums recently..

“Collection of 14 Originals Eddy merckx from the GAN Team (1995-98) & equipment”

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quite something , Team GAN provenance as well , I wonder if it will reach asking price !

De Rosa BMX

Posted on January 9, 2017 by saarf

I came across these images on facebook , an amazing frame set …

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said to have been for sale in a Tokyo vintage BMX shop , frame has beautiful details…

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here’s a link to the Tokyo shop .

NOS Colnago C35

Posted on July 6, 2016 by saarf

This example is currently being listed at a well known online

auction site…

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I wonder if will achieve anything near it’s b.i.n price!

Rare (rare) Cinelli Laser Track Pursuit

Posted on May 13, 2016 by saarf

Well, as lovers of fine bicycles, we are all aware of the rare Cinelli Laser Track Pursuit,

this one is extra rare…

“…PERSONALLY DECLARED FROM ANTONIO COLOMBO CHIEF OF THE CINELLI , HE LET BUILT SEVEN SPECIAL CINELLI LASER PURSUIT BIKES WITH DIFFERENT GEOMETRIES FOR THE HOUR RECORD AND WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN 1985 FOR HANS HENRICK OERSTED . WITH THIS BIKES HE WINS BOTH. ONE OF THIS BIKES IS IN THE OFFICE OF MR COLOMBO REVISITED BY KEITH HARING . AN OTHER OF THIS SEVEN BIKES WAS GIVEN PERSONALLY FROM ANTONIO COLOMBO IN 1992 TO THE COMIX ARTIST IGOR TUVERI WHO RESTYLED THE BIKE ….MR COLOMBO WRITE ” LOT OF MEMORIES AROUND HER AND THE ARTIST IS A MITH OF COMIX ART : IGOR TUVERI . WAS PRESENTED IN A MILANO GALLERY …EVERYTHING WAS ORGANIZED BY ME..”

quite a piece…

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purported to have been built for Igor Tuveri, circa 1992,

currently listed on ebay

Krit’s Colnago Oval CX

Posted on March 12, 2016 by saarf

About a year ago, Krit, a reader of this blog, contacted me with this story and images.The bike in question, is actually purported to be the first Colnago Oval Cx..

S__7594083[2] an absolutely stunning example, said to have been made by Ernesto Colnago himself..

“Not sure if you can recall. We did talk a year ago about Colnago CX that I bought from a collector in US. The one that is claimed to be the first Colnago Oval CX made by Ernesto himself and it has no serial number. Due to extended custom clearance process, I just got this bike few week ago. …I was told by the previous owner that this Oval CX, together with another including Arabesque and others were all trade show bikes that were made for the Paris, Milan and New York in 80’s. After the last stop which was New York, these bike were not shipped back to Italy but sold to a famous bike shop in New York called Conrads, located in Manhattan which was an upscale bike shop. This might be because Conrads bike shop was a major importer of Italian bikes to US at that time but I am not sure if this bike shop is still existed. There was a guy bought these bikes from Conrads and sold them to a collector that I bough this bike from.”

Krit also was lucky to be able to purchase and original Colnago Arabesque from the same vendor, quite a pair to find!

(I look forward to seeing the Arabesque Krit!)

If any other readers have any rare Colnagos , please feel free to share here (or ask for an appraisal ) .

Colnago Arabesque 2016

Posted on January 10, 2016 by saarf

Colnago have made 2016 version of the 1983 Arabesque,

which was built in very limited numbers to commemorate Colnago’s 30th anniversary, the lugs were made specially for this model by the Rauler brothers

colnago-arabesque with a crimped top tube and round down and seat tubes, the frame set was more akin to the Super and mexico model than Master..

1k0 I read somewhere the whole re-issue deal came about after an employee found a long lost box of the Arabesque lugs , but I doubt that’s the truth.

The 2016 model is more akin to the Master, with U.K. distributor Windwave even listing it as an Arabesque Master

The remake has a crimp tubed main triangle,like the Master,

available in white and light blue, my favs are red and black…

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1985 Hutch Trickstar

Posted on May 4, 2015 by saarf

Vintage bikes, road, track, mtb, etc have been reaching premium prices these last few years.

I’ve been keeping an eye on vintage bmx bikes, when I was a lad, my parents got me a second hand Diamond Back (they bought my brother a brand new one,maybe because I was no good at school), and lusted after GT’s, Haro’s and especially Hutch Trickstars, during a recent online auction browse, I found this exquisite piece, restored by a bmx collector in the U.K….