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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...
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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.
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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. 20240727_142141.jpg

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

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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...

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Stunning Frame -What luck! Cool back story too bud- clearly meant to be. :)

Hope you don't mind -Just an observe, now it's scuffed, you could hit it with 2500/3000 Wet+dry grit to get rid of scratches and then another coat of Clearcoat lightly to saturate/protect and pop the colour where it's thin (2K if you can)...First wipe with panel wipe ( isopropyl alcohol) to clear grease etc.. The bike will Shine like it's just out of the paint shop -like a new pin.

Apologies if I'm advising granny how to suck eggs here, but thought I'd mention... ;)
 
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Have a Malvern Star OPPY C7-and the colours are pretty Marmite, Black Red and White -they did some very cool C7 Team colour combo's for Pacific Rim racing series that they were blitzing - but I didn't think this was one of them. Bit too loud for me, and design was way out there 14 + years ago, matt colour combinations were in vogue. Didn't have much of a choice in the colour, really wanted a C7, feathers weigh more. Couldn't afford a carbon bike in UK/Europe...so found a shop demo bike in Melbourne being sold off, costing less than a mid range Brompton even with shipping + import taxes, groupset alone was worth more than the bike cost. Hardly used. Total no brainer. Deal was done.

Ride is superb, German engineered frameset, but those colours! Wide aero carbon frames are super common now, back then Carbon was big bucks..and the bike attracted way too much attention. .Got to the point of stripping it and masking it up too and almost loaded up the spray gun, forcing a single colour scheme on it....Restrained myself.

Glad I did now -future classic, original of its time, nice to customise, but it is what it is.

The Malvern Star was a whisker away from the same treatment as the Colnago.

Would have possibly looked like it had been nicked, but as Foz says, to prevent theft.

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Stunning Frame -What luck! Cool back story too bud- clearly meant to be. :)

Hope you don't mind -Just an observe, now it's scuffed, you could hit it with 2500/3000 Wet+dry grit to get rid of scratches and then another coat of Clearcoat lightly to saturate/protect and pop the colour where it's thin (2K if you can)...First wipe with panel wipe ( isopropyl alcohol) to clear grease etc.. The bike will Shine like it's just out of the paint shop -like a new pin.

Apologies if I'm advising granny how to suck eggs here, but thought I'd mention... ;)
To be fair its so fine I probably just run the polisher over. Now worries about posting info other may not be as clued up as ourselves.👍
 
I do love the mystery history of bikes and cars for that matter, once someones pride and joy left abandoned in a pile, it does make you think what kinda life its had...

But not this time, this Jet will fly again taking its new owner on adventures.

So decided not to buy a carbon crankset as they are too expensive so I put on a chainset that was hanging around and used the original chain and cassette set up the gears and took it for a spin no issues rides lovely, shame I'm not fit enough to exploit its potential 😏🤣

so here it is

Next question whats it worth ????? if it had all its original equipment maybe £650-700 ? but missing wheels cranks and saddle £350-400 ?
 

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That came up really well 👍

Can't help with value, and you may have seen / noticed not easy to price things at the moment.
 
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