Vintage Components - Cinelli Contact handlebars, 26.4mm bar diameter

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Cinelli Contact pads location

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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.

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Cinelli Contact handlebars, 42cm x 26.4 stem diameter

We have this bar in New | Lightly Used

Cinelli Contact handlebars, 42cm x 26.4 stem diameter. New, $79.95

Part# 30435

• We have 9 in stock
• 284 grams
• These are wonderfully anatomic bars with a specially shaped grip for the drops (see second picture).

Bars are grooved front and back for Ergo levers

The drops are specially shaped.

Cinelli Contact handlebars, 42cm x 26.4 stem diameter. Lightly used, $65.00/each

This sale includes proprietary plugs and pads (new).

Front view with pads & plugs

Close-up of the bar's center section.

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Cinelli Contact handlebars, 44cm x 26.4 stem diameter.

• 290 grams
• These are wonderfully anatomic bars with a specially shaped grip for the drops.
• 7005 Tempered Aluminum

We have two: #1 | #2

Cinelli Contact handlebars, 44cm x 26.4 stem diameter #1. Lightly used, $65.00

There are the remains of a set of Contact Pads still on the bars after removing the tape residue. Note the special end plugs are included.

The center section

And the bar ends with the plugs

Cinelli Contact handlebars, 44cm x 26.4 stem diameter #2. Used, $55.00

The bars and their accessory parts.

The center section. In nice condition.

Wear on one of the graphic bands

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Cinelli Contact pads location:

First, here is a set of Cinelli Contact pads and plugs.

Here is a pad installed.