bikeworkshop
Senior Retro Guru
Mid 90s colnago, the very end of quality steel race bikes - built to ride nicely all day, built before race radio, team and rider micromanagement and marginal gains started to eat into the personalities on the road.
This frame has every known colour in the universe on it, and a few unknown ones i followed this idea, and the cinelli arte stem, with some "oilslick" style parts - to make what i call
theworldsmostbeautifulbike
continental framesets of this period were frequently garish, so that's what I was after.
I've built this with the idea of the aero aluminium look popular at the time...
campagnolo Shamal wheels, monoplanar calipers,
mavic starfish chainset, (conveniently adapted to "compact")
8 speed ergos with the beloved frictionish front change and 27t rear sprocket. Solid gear change, with a gear able to get a mature rider up a 20⁰ slope, of which there are plenty round here.
This frame has every known colour in the universe on it, and a few unknown ones i followed this idea, and the cinelli arte stem, with some "oilslick" style parts - to make what i call
theworldsmostbeautifulbike
continental framesets of this period were frequently garish, so that's what I was after.
I've built this with the idea of the aero aluminium look popular at the time...
campagnolo Shamal wheels, monoplanar calipers,
mavic starfish chainset, (conveniently adapted to "compact")
8 speed ergos with the beloved frictionish front change and 27t rear sprocket. Solid gear change, with a gear able to get a mature rider up a 20⁰ slope, of which there are plenty round here.