On Sun, 19 Mar 2017 13:22:13 -0700 (PDT), jbeattie
wrote:

On Sunday, March 19, 2017 at 9:07:17 AM UTC-7, wrote:
On Sunday, March 19, 2017 at 1:31:21 AM UTC-7, John B. wrote:
On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 12:57:51 -0500, Tim McNamara
wrote:

On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:02:32 -0700 (PDT), Doug Landau
wrote:

I really liked this bike. Not sure why I got rid of it, except I guess
it was just time for something new, just for a change. Paid $150 for
it ready to ride.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/saronni

Classic Italian road bike. Nice.

If that is a Colnago Saronni bike it is worth, depending on the group
set, upwards from, perhaps, $1,000.

Do a bit of goggling as the Colnago Saronni has some very identifiable
features which, if your bike has them, should serve as provenance.
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Cheers,

John B.

John, what you're talking about is a Colnago with the model designation of Saronni.

The bike in question is a Saronni which I don't think had much connection with Giuseppe except to pay him a fee for the use of his name. Moser was the same way I believe.

I've seen some posts indicating that some of the Saronni brand bikes were made by Colnago.
http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16395

-- Jay Beattie.

Well, I can't say that I made a whole career of searching for
"Saronni" bicycles but a casual search did seem to show that it is
likely that "Saronni" was not the name of a brand of bicycles but
rather was the name that Colnago gave to specific versions of his
bicycles.

And the bike that the O.P. referenced seemed to exhibit a similarity
to the Colnago version.

You will note that I wrote "If that is a Colnago Saronni bike it..."

Of course, an alternate explanation is decals are fairly cheaply
obtainable :-)
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Cheers,

John B.