Originally Posted by thunder
Also Luke roberts was on a Ciombola tt machine, which is made by the Trak cycles guy in Melbourne. They have a shop at Southland and one other, but I think the custom's are a different selling practice.IE no need for retail forum.Wonder if he has his CSC machines in Europe and or he had to give em back, or he prefers the Ciombola.Anyone no anything about these steeds?
Ooops...I missed this about the Ciombola.
Roberts has a deal where he's allowed to ride the bikes when he's in Australia, and, as you'd expect, "Mr Ciombola" says Roberts prefers these bikes.
Last I heard was that he sold the shop and had moved back to Adelaide to have a bit of a break.
I nearly bought one before I got the Cervelo Superprodigy. The Ciombolas VERY sexy bikes; the pictures on the website (site not working) didn't do them justice at all. The attention to detail can't be faulted.
The guy is a fanatic. He said likes to "interview" a customer for about 3 hours before he builds the frame, mostly (obviously) to find what they
really want, but also to find out if the cutomer is worthy of one of his bikes.
After i mispronounced the name (oops -- my first mistake), we didn't get off to a good start,
then, with me being a bit short of cash, I asked if I could buy just a frame and chuck "any old fork in it that I had lying around at home". Well, I think he wanted to punch me.
He started shaking his head, saying: "no, no, why would I do that? I just can't do that. I build a frame around a specific fork. No, no, no." Then he virtually ushered me out of the shop. I knew then that I was not worthy
