hi all, i have a pair of cinelli bars i recently picked up, they're aluminum, older with a smooth curve bend, they have a sleeve at the bar/stem interface, and have CINELLI 66 44 stamped on the left (from the front), and Campione CINELLI del monde on the right. They're 44 cm wide so i guess that's what the 44 is, but is the 66 a model number, or a year, or a style? i'd like to know what i have before i toss it up on ebay or sell it to a friend in the next week, liquidating bike parts seems to be my new job. thanks in advance.

Cinelli road bars were the 63, 64, 65 and 66.
The 66 has the deepest drop of all of them and the 44 is measured center to center.
The 63 has a similar bend to the 66 but the drop is not as deep.
The 64, the Giro d'Italia model, has the shallowest bend of the group.
The 65, the Criterium model, bent forward on the area from the tops to the hood area was favored by Roger de Vlaeminck, Mister Paris Roubaix, among others.

You need to know the diameter of the clamping area. The majority of their bars were made for their stems, ie 26.4mm clamp. In the last few years production of the 63-66 models, they were made in 26.0mm as well as single and double grooves for brake and shifter cables.

EBay pricing is all over the place. Standard 26.4, no groove bars don't get much more than $25 on a good day. That being said, I sold a 26.4, double groove 66-42, fairly rare, for $68 for someone who was doing a Pegoretti Luigino project.

hi all, i have a pair of cinelli bars i recently picked up, they're aluminum, older with a smooth curve bend, they have a sleeve at the bar/stem interface, and have CINELLI 66 44 stamped on the left (from the front), and Campione CINELLI del monde on the right. They're 44 cm wide so i guess that's what the 44 is, but is the 66 a model number, or a year, or a style? i'd like to know what i have before i toss it up on ebay or sell it to a friend in the next week, liquidating bike parts seems to be my new job. thanks in advance.

Boneman is spot on....If you are going to sell on ebay, the clamp diameter is most important. As Boneman said, 26.4 is the most likely, but the later models were 26.0

The early bars most common trait of 26.4 bars will be the decorative stamped crests on either side of the clamp, Cinelli crest on one side, model name on the other in a decorative shield. Good for most examples, #65 bars get double Cinelli crests, no model name.
Very Early Cinelli alloy bars were not 26.4. They are polished, no anno and fit the old steel stems. Have one pair, got by accident, was on an old "junker" bike.

Cinelli continued the 26.4 diameter after they changed the stamping to the winged C and later the star imprint, but this is the time where 26.0 became avail. as well.

I watched an auction for a pair of NOS #63-40 bars on ebay recently. They are my favorite bar since 1975, They went for over $160.! Ouch, may be expensive to keep my bikes in those bars in the future.

Old logo, no groove, bars in wide widths (42-44) are the most desriable and expensive. If in nice shape with no scratches on the logo area.

amazing, i guess i came to the right place for info. it sucks the condition of the bars is far from perfect, the clamping area is a bit marred on the right side, and there are a few nicks here and there, now i just need to borrow some calipers and then they're off to ebay in a few hours. thanks everyone on giving me all the background i needed and then some, really helpful and just what i wanted.