Had a day off work on Friday and popped into Rebike Carlisle and have a catch up with the gents, wasn't planning to buy anything but I've always got to have a nosey whilst I'm there. So looking about I spotted a nice Michelin Wildgripper in green of which I had a odd one, so nice to have a pair.
Anyhow clambering over a few bikes to get the tyre I noticed a Colnago sticker on a frame in the middle of the pile, 20 minutes later I had the bike free. Carbon rear end, carbon forks, alloy triangle it had been poorly repainted so I wasn't even sure it was genuine and was missing its cranks but it did have a Dura ace 7800 groupset on it Hmmm worth a punt. So after a bit of haggling I got the bike and tyre for £140 and to be honest at that point I was going to part it out.
After getting it home I was keen to see what it was scanning images on the net all night produce no clues I went to bed still scratching my head...
Next morning I decided the only option was to find out what lay beneath that awful paint, lightly sanding off the clear coat I got a cloth and some cellulose thinners and removed a strip on the top tube revealing a 2006 Colnago Jet !!! never heard of it, off for a coffee and back on the net reveals not a lot more apart from a Cristallo Jet which was a full carbon frame. There are images of the same bike but not much information, I still needed to get that paint off but first walk the dogs.
I couldn't be to harsh getting the paint off but using the cloth was taking forever, it took about an hour to do the first bit. So I popped down to the local hard wear store and picked up some extra fine wire wool, and then got back and stripped the frame, using this with the thinners speeded up the process but I still had to sand down the clear coat.
After 4hrs I had started to break the back of it, the more paint I removed the better it became.
By about 6 oclock I had the frame and forks done needed a good clean but it was time for dinner so off to the kebab shop for a Donner
It was a nice evening so I decided to plod on after dinner cleaned the frame and gave it a good T cut and polish and reassembled the bike. I swapped out the saddle for a sella itatlia and the tyre for a new set of gatorskins I had kicking about. Just need to get a crankset for it and new chain and cassette, would be nice to get an FSA carbon for it which they look to have came with originally.
This is what we have so far...
Anyhow clambering over a few bikes to get the tyre I noticed a Colnago sticker on a frame in the middle of the pile, 20 minutes later I had the bike free. Carbon rear end, carbon forks, alloy triangle it had been poorly repainted so I wasn't even sure it was genuine and was missing its cranks but it did have a Dura ace 7800 groupset on it Hmmm worth a punt. So after a bit of haggling I got the bike and tyre for £140 and to be honest at that point I was going to part it out.
After getting it home I was keen to see what it was scanning images on the net all night produce no clues I went to bed still scratching my head...
Next morning I decided the only option was to find out what lay beneath that awful paint, lightly sanding off the clear coat I got a cloth and some cellulose thinners and removed a strip on the top tube revealing a 2006 Colnago Jet !!! never heard of it, off for a coffee and back on the net reveals not a lot more apart from a Cristallo Jet which was a full carbon frame. There are images of the same bike but not much information, I still needed to get that paint off but first walk the dogs.
I couldn't be to harsh getting the paint off but using the cloth was taking forever, it took about an hour to do the first bit. So I popped down to the local hard wear store and picked up some extra fine wire wool, and then got back and stripped the frame, using this with the thinners speeded up the process but I still had to sand down the clear coat.
After 4hrs I had started to break the back of it, the more paint I removed the better it became.
By about 6 oclock I had the frame and forks done needed a good clean but it was time for dinner so off to the kebab shop for a Donner
It was a nice evening so I decided to plod on after dinner cleaned the frame and gave it a good T cut and polish and reassembled the bike. I swapped out the saddle for a sella itatlia and the tyre for a new set of gatorskins I had kicking about. Just need to get a crankset for it and new chain and cassette, would be nice to get an FSA carbon for it which they look to have came with originally.
This is what we have so far...
