Offered: Cinelli Pista Anyone? - With Faults

SOLD * SOLD * SOLD

A friend has a Cinelli Olympic Pista frame available: 59cm seat tube c-c, 57 top tube c-c

Canary yellow and Columbus Thron, but with a damaged downtube as the result of a spill.

The official Cinelli quote to correct this is £500, but a local builder can do it for much less.

Frame still tracks straight and is sound and ridable.

Retail was well over £1000.

SOLD * SOLD * SOLD

you could hide that with a bigfnckoff chainring

if this was my size oooooooo eeeeeeeeeee

you could hide that with a bigfnckoff chainring

Or Dante's gaffa tape.

has he been paid out by insurance?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nlEaKHqX-o

No insurance claim, but he's now riding a vintage Pogliaghi, found in Italy.

Would you class that dent as a seriose structural problem? That is just my size but I am not sure I could aford to get it fixed straight away.

Would you class that dent as a seriose structural problem? That is just my size but I am not sure I could aford to get it fixed straight away.

Ride it singlespeed then! ;)

probably be ok.

He's ridden it for quite some time after the fall.

No difference in handling was noticed.

The non-drive side of the tube is as normal so a repair isn't urgent.

probably be ok.

It'd be stretching things to call it a "ding" though.

if only i was i wasn't so poor!

John Gotti,

just buy it, ride it and repair when you can, getting a slightly road word bike for a fraction of the price new. You'll love it to pieces you will, and then respray it in a bright flamboyant, flourescent pink..

GO ON MR MOBBS!

How do you go about finding a vintage Pogliaghi in Italy. Do you just turn up in Rome and ask about?

I'd go to Milan.

I think it's an excellent opportunity if you're looking for something like this.
If it was 2 - 3 cm lower/smaller, I would have taken it (after a short conversation about the price).
New downtube is a piece of cake for a framebuilder, respray has to be calculated for almost every vintage project.
So, this is a good thing to start with, if it's your size.

Damn, I'm not tall enough (although the TT is my size). Just don't want to ride such a beauty with the saddle on the toptube.

John Gotti,

just buy it, ride it and repair when you can,

amen

if only i was i wasn't so poor!

if only you where taller

is the tube straight?? 250, i'll take it!

c'mon pink, you know you wnated

I'm interested DMC

Its my size but not my colour

Painted black it would make a nice replacement for my bareknuckle

Cyclomundo has the decals

So the question is, who has the suitable Thron tubing and can do a proper repair and paint

I would want to figure this out before I parted with money

as I have enough bloody half built bikes cluttering up the place

300 is a damn bargain.

Are the forks drilled?