With an impending big birthday (contrary to appearances, not 60th) I 'needed' a new bike (or two) to mark the moment. In advance. As a Libran I spent many happy hours prevaricating but then saw that Olanet X had bought the Holdsworth brand and were doing exact replicas of the Holdsworth Professional, skinny tubes, threaded fork, orange and blue, the lot. My finger hovvered over the 'Buy' button but something stopped me - I had lots of old road bikes in the shed, did I really want to drop a grand on a new replica?
Planet X were also doing a whole load of other Holdsworth stuff including wool jerseys and I saw a modern Holdsworth in the classic team colours but made of Columbus Spirit shaped and manipulated tubing, oversize carbon fork, sloping top tube etc. A germ of an idea was planted - have a bike that pays homage but has all the advantages of top end modern tubing and a groupset that doesn't look out of place. The fact that it was 50% off was merely coincidental. It arrived, it was madly light, I was pleased.
So, here it is, a Holdsworth Competition in Columbus Spirit, full Sram Force groupset, Ultegra wheels (bonus is that the frame easily takes 28s, reckon you could get 30s in there pretty easily), Thomson stem and post, Arione.
Planet X were also doing a whole load of other Holdsworth stuff including wool jerseys and I saw a modern Holdsworth in the classic team colours but made of Columbus Spirit shaped and manipulated tubing, oversize carbon fork, sloping top tube etc. A germ of an idea was planted - have a bike that pays homage but has all the advantages of top end modern tubing and a groupset that doesn't look out of place. The fact that it was 50% off was merely coincidental. It arrived, it was madly light, I was pleased.
So, here it is, a Holdsworth Competition in Columbus Spirit, full Sram Force groupset, Ultegra wheels (bonus is that the frame easily takes 28s, reckon you could get 30s in there pretty easily), Thomson stem and post, Arione.
