• This frame is without doubt a Colnago Super - it has as I state in the description been repainted and modernised to fit allen bolt brakes. Colnago were an early adopter of DT shifter braze-ons and introduced them first in 1973 which is what all the other details on the frame and forks point to. The fork tang with the club cutout is very typical of 1973 Supers. The TT braze-ons are a later addition which I expect were made at the time the frame was converted to allen-bolt brakes and repainted. Colnago used only two TT cable guides when they introduced them a few years later.

    Please see the timeline on Classic Rendezvous as to Colnago dating:

    http://search.bikelist.org/?SearchString=colnago%20timeline&Scope=classicrendezvous

    This has been developed by a group of CR members who had a massive amount of experience of early 1970s Colnagos.

    There is a number on the offside dropout.

    What does need to be understood that in he early 1970s Colnago was still a relatively small operation and the cutouts varied quite a lot. By the late 70s/early 80s Colnago production had increased probably five to ten fold and everything was then very standardised. In the early 70s a lot of handwork still went into each frame.

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