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no worries, always a pleasure
ageing is always difficult, saw a mercian the other day where owner had brazed cable guides removed, replace with clamp on campy ones, which if you use colnago as a reference, would put the frame from 60' to mid 70's
as not colnago , hard to say, best thing to ascertain a rough idea is if the gruppo is original, look at the rd pat.no and should give and year, eg, 72, 77, 82, 84
bike could be reynolds 531, but no provenance, so best to attribute a value to gruppo
if a complete gruppo, I'd say 350-400 top endhope this helps
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Thanks saarf, It did help.
With the help of the seller dated the group to 74, following that I had a nice conversation with him, and he insists the this is a colnago, at some point he mentioned colnago sport.
I was not familiar with this model so I tried to dig some info on these and learned that colnago used to get contractors like benotto to build frames for the US market during the 70s, they were mostly built in mexico.
The lug work in my pictures is identical to some colnago sport bikes i found online (added a couple of links below)
http://www.retrospectivecycles.com/archive/colnago-sport-52cms/
http://annunci.ebay.it/annunci/biciclette/catania-annunci-acireale/colnago-sport-1980/64459068I know those are not considered real colnagos, and i guess i won't be buying these for 400 p. At this point i am just trying to solve the puzzle :)
So can this be a colnago sport ?
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Thank you very much for the detailed anlysis saarf.
2 more questions if i may,
Could you roughly date this frame given the above pics ?
What would you consider a fair price for the bike as is ?