High end retail bike sellers will, ship a bike like that pretty well assembled , that will be a better thing to do.
If you feel you must, like, learn to drive in a Maserati first.. its your money..
Just keeping that 11 speed race bike kit tuned will be enough of a challenge..
Colnago keeps shifting importers to the US, why is probably best not said.
Just that there may be Gray market paths that that stuff goes thru..
FWIW, back in the 80's No Italian Builders did any threading , that was for the dealer to do
in setting the bike up for the customer ,
there was a rough resemblance of threading , that the investment cast shells already had.
but the dealer would get out their special Bicycle tap and die set and do all that work.
Now, a lot of parts have narrow torque specs, so a torque wrench in 1/4" and 3/8" drive and sockets and allen socket drives are needed to put all that High tech CF stuff together .
then there are a number of other specialty tools to buy, as well..
Last edited by fietsbob; 08-09-10 at 07:16 PM.