Originally Posted by
KonAaron Snake
I've seen plenty of Columbus tubing frames that looked and rode like nothing special. It's the builder, not the tubing.
As far as hand built - I think this can be a highly misleading term...plenty of horrendous bike boom, mass produced frames were hand built. Badly. I've only seen maybe a dozen torellis, and never ride one, but nothing I saw stood out in any way.
everyone is entitled to an opinion....mine is still that they are above the average. again, anything columbus is above the average. they may not be colnagos or whatever but still they are far above the standard. they brought good quality frames at lower prices, there werent a gazillion made, and most were ordered and built to customer specs. hat trick.