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Vintage Components - Cinelli Model 66 Campione del Mondo handlebars, 26.4mm bar diameter

On this page: Cinelli Model 66 Campione del Mondo: 39cm used | 40cm used #1 | #2

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Cino Cinelli's brother Giotto had been making steel stems since the late 1930s in Florence, Italy. They moved the business to Milan after the Second World War. In 1963 Cinelli began commercially producing alloy stems and matching handlebars and it wasn't long before Cinelli bar and stems became the choice of serious athletes and connoisseurs.

The 1A ("A" stood for aluminum) stem and Cinelli bars were first shown at a trade show at the 1960 Rome Olympics. We believe consumer production of these new aluminum stems and bars didn't begin until 1963.

Those first components had a polished, non-anodized finish. The classic clear anodization that gives Cinelli stems and bars that luxurious "milky" finish began in 1965.

Of the two classic Cinelli bars, the Model 66 Campione del Mondo and Model 64 Giro d'Italia, the 66 has the deeper drop, about 160mm center to center.

Weight of a 42cm width is about 333 grams.

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Cinelli Model 66-39 Campione del Mondo bars, 26.4 diameter. used $50.00

Measuring these bars center-to-center we get 39cm

Full view

Close-up of the center section, showing the traditional Cinelli coat of arms

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Cinelli Model 66-40 Campione del Mondo bars, 26.4 diameter. used $50.00

Part# 66-40-U-1

• 40cm width.
• Because the center sleeve has the new-style winged Cinelli logo, these bars were produced after 1979.

The classic Eddy Merckx bend.

Close-up of the center sleeve

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Cinelli Model 66-40 Campione del Mondo bars, 26.4 diameter. used $50.00

Part# 66-40-U-3

No cable grooves

The dark spot on the near curve of the bars is a reflection, not anything on the bars themsemselves.

Close-up of the center section, which is well-polished.

Close-up of the curve, showing scratches from what we think were made by a brake lever.

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