Pintarello - Pin your Pinarello Here

So nice

Nice! New forks and paintjob?

Wonderful frame, bad luck for the forks... probably the best thing is to have them custom made and painted!

Ah, cheers. Yeah new/old fork, frame stripped, chromed, painted, decals and clear coat. (Following on from posts #3 & #13 above.)

Those Columbus Air forks are not so common, Pinarello didn't make many framesets using that tube set... Nice find!

Not Air, just SL, (frame is SLX,) but they were still hard to find! Ended up getting them from Serbia, of all places.

Sure its SL? Do you have a picture that shows the rear of the fork crown?

You know what, you're right. To be honest I've never had any reason to suspect they were anything other than SL tubes, but comparing mine to regular Pinarello forks (from around '85,) they certainly have a lot more pronounced 'aero' shape, particularly at the crown.

That's kinda cool...I feel a bit stupid that you picked that up just by looking at my crappy photos!

Doesn't seem to be much info about Columbus Air out there, do you know when they stopped making it?

Air came out in the early 80's, and been around until the early 90's (mainly on forks, see Tommasini and Somec).
I've seen only a couple of Pinarellos made with that tubing, they were pre-lopro time trial bikes from the mid 80's.
Here's some examples:

How is that other shifter attached in the first pic?

Two reversed aero single shifter-mount, placed in different positions so the shifters could sit right in the middle of the downtube.

Built this the other day, another sweet Maat:

PS: is it possible to move this thread to Bike&Bits? Maybe @Velocio could? Pleaseeee

Done.

And damn, that is a really nice build. Nice commuter bike ;)

Pretty much finished mine for now

Nice! Did you get this recently?

It's almost done for at least 6 months but it took me more than 3 years to build it...

@Breso thanks for the frame again :)

PS... don't have a fancy pic.

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Why “almost”?
Looking for these? ;)

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Glad to see you’re still enjoying it!!

yes haz ?

Yes I do have.

Breso sei davvero il mio italiano preferito dopo Michelangelo : )

Brothers reunited

thanks Breso !