Originally Posted by orcas island

Hi all - I dropped in to meet him this afternoon in regards to the 54 cm Colnago he mentions in the ad. At that point in the day (3:30 pm) the 57 cm Colnago, the Merckx, and the 57 cm Masi had been traded for the Paramount he was interested in finding. Didn't see the Litespeed he had mentioned in the ad in his storage space. Perhaps gone as well. I'm hoping for the sake of the guy who traded him the Paramount that the 3 bikes he or she got in return were in better shape than the Colnago I looked at. How do you say no to a $350 Colnago, you might ask? It was WAY rougher than his photos suggested; the kind of "patina" that years of hard riding and uncovered outside storage provides. It needed a full repaint, and that was just more of a project than I was interested in undertaking.