It took about five months to complete, but I have finally finished restoring this gorgeous vintage Colnago Super Pista. It’s a 57cm in original paint. My research points to it being a 1983 model – this guess is based off of looking at all the Colnago Pistas I could find online, and the one that had the exact matching decal set and paintjob was a 1983. It has Columbus tubing and the fork is the flat crown model, chromed, with engraved Colnago “C” and clover.
The original story on how I got it is here, but since then I spent a lot of time collecting up the right parts and slowly cleaning and polishing it up. While fixing up the Campy lockring with my Dremel tool, I got some steel in my eye that required three separate procedures to completely remove. So there was definitely sweat and tears invested in this project!
Alan Tansey was kind enough to volunteer his awesome photo skills to take a great set of pictures of this beast. Check out the full photo gallery and specs after the jump…
