Does anybody remember cinelli mtb

[sm500]

Ah see, it does bring back some memories, makes a change to remember a bit of a rarer bike, may be not so good or nice to look at as some of the other offerings at that time, but it was still mountain biking. I wish i still had it, its def a bit more unusual than u diamond backs, konas, an the likes!!

 

[novekili]

Cinelli's Rampichino is universally recognised as the first Italian MTB. The black one you see above is the "the machine", a racing rig in columbus nivacrom max or.
The top of the shelf model was the "next machine", with elevated stays, again in max or.
They were built by cinelli but sported fisher saddles, stems and tires.
The latest nice model before they closed down wasthe capitano nemo, in columbus - guess what - nemo. I won't go into the last alucarbon pieces of crap they produced