Originally Posted by
repechage
the "measles" Serotta must have been for a King of the mountain tribute bike.
Actually I would write to Ben Serotta, oddball enough that the backstory is probably interesting.
I can confirm that the KoM connection is explicit.
It seems a bit odd that they left off the 's' -- maybe a trademark issue?
When I ride this bike, I like to imagine myself as a rouleur for one of the minor teams in the Tour who got the points over a couple of Cat 4 climbs in a breakaway on stage one. Taylor Phinney got the KoM jersey like this in 2017 on stage 2 before finishing 146th on the day. I was inspired.
There is at least one other one like this, The owner of the other one had it repainted and kept the polka dots but changed it to "Jester of the Mountain" --
https://thepaceline.net/forums/showthread.php?t=117821
The biggest thing keeping me from having it repainted is that I would feel silly having the polka dots recreated if I did, but I feel like the polka dots ought to stay as a piece of this bike's history.
Originally Posted by
repechage
Those Colnago airbrush dot extravaganzas just don't do much for me, but some are willing to pay the big bucks.
I've got a Colnago from that era, but it's like they forgot to finish painting it. It has the air brushed graphics on the top tube, but it's all white aside from that.
Not even worthy of being pictured on this thread.