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I still have to read more about Master Piu's to date the frame exactly. If there are any experts here, feel free to contribute.
I'm no expert, but I think I read somewhere that the IOC took issue with Colnago's usage of the word Olympic in the Colnago Master Olympic so they rebranded it the Colnago Master Piu*. This was in the early to mid 90s.
*Piu is Italian for 'more' I think.
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Edit: decided to change this project into a more general topic of my current projects, after @Familyman suggested to do a retrospective CP on the Shimano AX. So expect a chaotic overview of the bikes I’m currently working on . Most of time, these take long time and I don’t have the persistance to keep detailed pictures etc during the proces. A chaotic ‘bike stable’ topic seems a good idea to me.
At the moment, following bikes are just finished / works in progress:
The Colnago Master will be a slow-burner, so don't expect a quick build here. Plan is to get it finalised for spring next year.
After restoring the frame and forks and building this Fondriest for a good friend (see pic below), I was convinced that I needed a steel bike with straight chrome forks for myself. Pieces felt together when I was offered a Colnago Master Piu in my size (61.5 CC) for a very reasonable price. Unlike a lot of bigger sized Colnago's, the frame doesn't have the (in my opinion) fugly extended headtube and seattube lug, which is great. Frame can also take two bottle cage holders + a race tag holder. I still have to read more about Master Piu's to date the frame exactly. If there are any experts here, feel free to contribute.
The frame has been resprayed and the chrome on the headtube lugs an front forks is bad, so should be rechromed. The rear fork wil polish up nicely. Plan is a complete repaint and new chrome.
Before going all-in on restoring the frame and buying groupset (thinking towards 10 or 11 speed Chorus / Record) and carbon wheels, I'll build the frame up with parts from the parts bin. I want to ride the frame first to make sure frame size is perfect and to see if the fuzz about these master frames is with good reason. If size is not ok or if I'm not convinced of the ride, there's no sense in restoring it.
So first step with be a quick build with 10 sp Daytona and Khamsin wheels. Will post more pictures soon!
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