Originally Posted by chad
They are one of the only European companies to have ISO 9001 certification. That means they are internationally inspected for quality control...
Actually all it means is that they have read the manuals and completed quality manuals of their own. No one really works to 9001 since it's ALL paperwork.
Originally Posted by chad
As for sizing the owner of the LBS I goto said they are sized a little smaller than normal bikes. I test road a cannondale, a bianchi, oryx, Miele, trek before I bought my bike. Colnago rocks :-)
As I note, I have two Colnagos. They tend to be very good roadracing geometry. On the other hand, I could never tell the difference what bike I was riding in a crit except that you want a very stiff bike so that you can accelerate without flexing the frame.
Personally I'd look more closely at the Cannondale if I was thinking of crits.