Originally Posted by
noglider
I'm with [MENTION=73614]rhm[/MENTION]. I find many Italian bikes to be gaudy. So you can take away my C&V membership card now.
Antoni
Gaudí i Cornet was a Spanish architect from wence the word
gaudi came from. Think the cathedral in Barcelona, Spain.
The state of being
gaudi isn't limited to the Italians. For example, my 1989 Peugeot Chorus 753. Now to my eye, this is gaudi too! I like it!
Pics are not my bike but they show the
gaudi colours:
A 1979 Peugeot SLX that I briefly had. Same bike but Columbus SLX frame rather than Reynolds 753.
From the late 80's until the end of their run, Peugeot offered a lot of different models with 2 tone fade paint jobs and color splash decals.
At the opposite extreme, we started selling Trek bikes and frames soon after they hit the market in the mid 70's. They had austere (stodgy) colors which appealed to a lot of our customer base who were engineers, scientists and so on and were commuters/tourists as opposed to hot zoots racers. We carried a nice selection of hot Italian frames for the fast set.
verktyg
