Well, I'm an industry outsider, but this would actually surprise me a bit just because of how deeply discounted a lot of the CC frames are. When I talked to them while sorting out back-order status they said it came to them directly from Ridley.

I know for a fact that if I'd gone into my LBS and asked for this frame they wouldn't have sold it to me for anywhere near what I paid.

Suppose there are non exclusive distribution deals .. and they change ..
over time Colnago went through a number of different US distributors.

Thanks everybody for your comments! The front fender holder is actually bent, i'll see what I can do when i get home. The kickstand is combined with kids trailer hitch, and due to the funny shape of the dropouts i can't use other, more neat systems.

Well. Let me have another try -- here is my wifes commutouring, a perfect commuter I had in mind after building one for myself (the black one above). I like straight forks! (this one came together with the frame) :) Not sure how did yellow reflectors get there, long time they are gone since the photo was taken.

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Definitely hot!

Does acidfast know that you have all of these bikes with drop bars in Germany?

Overhauled my right ergo and swapped out the red tape for some black on my commuter/cross last night. Other than the blue rims and the saddle, it's completely monochrome. Campy veloce on a bikeisland frameset rolling on 38mm continentals via ambrosia hoops. It's a double, but mity capable.

There have been many iterations of this bike, but I think this is going to be 'finished' for a while.

Before:

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After:

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Points for the custom mud flap. Deductions for the anodized bits. I think I could rate it hot with the wheels but not the rack hardware.

That's not a custom mudflap- those are 40 year old bluemel's 'lightweight' (ha!) fenders.

Don't know what to tell you about the rack hardware, it was in the partsbin and I went for it. The rack matches the gold spacers in the campy cassette. http://i.imgur.com/esmE8.gif

Yes, that is the Wald "Giant Basket", and yes the struts are pre-drilled and you bolt the uppers and lowers together to get the height you need.

For a different bike, I was able to buy a kit that had just the struts, handlebar brackets, and hardware for the Giant Basket. I fit it to a smaller basket that had fixed-length legs that did not fit the bike well. It took a bit of DIY modification, but it worked. Just an idea if you like your current basket aside from how it fits your bike.

Thank you, sir. It was lovingly hand-splattered, mostly in the 1980s except for a few touch-ups and new paint on the chainguard when I rebuilt the bike two years ago.

Oh yeah that is SO hot! :thumb: Drop bars! And disc brakes! And IGH!

I love how closely the fenders hug the tires. Must be nary a drop that reaches that BB in the rain. :D

Hmmm, I looked again at some of the Giant baskets, looks like the way they're made now they have fixed-length struts, but you can get a separate kit with the adjustable ones. Also, it looks like you can adjust the height at the handlebars as well?

I really want the giant basket, but I've been holding off because sometimes I take my bicycle on the bus and I don't know if it will fit on the racks on the front of the bus.

Yeah, racks and baskets with extreme angles always disturb me. You don't need a taller stem to level it out. What you need are shorter stays. I've found the Wald stays to be pretty pliable, so you should be able to hack them.

Use a hacksaw to shorten them to desired length. Smooth out the cuts with a file. Hammer down the curved part of the stays at ends where the new cut is so it is flattened. Drill new, appropriate sized holes with a power drill.

Also, the angle of the basket can be adjusted somewhat with the handlebar brackets. They don't necessarily have to be angled straight down as you appear to have them. If you raise them up so they are pointing in a more forward direction, it will raise the back end of the basket.

I've tried, I've even got locktite and have used old innertubes as shims, but within half a mile the rear of the basket is back down where it is in the picture. Sooner if I have any cargo at all in it. That's why I think I'm going to try the Giant Delivery basket - more cargo space, and the mounting brackets aren't as flimsy.

:innocent:

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:thumb:

How about another BD Motobecane?

Somehow I missed this comment before Brennan quoted it. Better late than never.

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Obviously not all of these are commuters, but I thought I'd go for maximum hurl probability. :D

Definitely hot!

I don't like the alternating spacers, but the handlebars more than makes up for it.

Acidfast7 should be really queasy by now. :)

How about an orange Salsa to give the technicolor yawn a little brightness;)

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Nice.

Hot.

from

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to this for winter.

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lol!

Hot.
Is that a disc brake tab I see on the left seat stay?

Yes. The carbon fork has a tab as well. If I used discs, the rear would be almost impossible to mount a rack to and the front isn't all that easy to mount fenders on. Kind of a pain to have them.

No. But then I live where there we get 11" of water per year. Think "The Dalles".

Thanks. It's a Hard Rock Ultra circa 1991/2. The blacked out tubes are actually black friction tape wrapped for protection/ aesthetic tone-down from the Stock Miami Vice paint job. The handlebars are Salsa Woodchippers and the Sora Brifters are best manipulated from the hoods. This set up is perfect for the rolling hill / urban commute I have also since added a 52 chainring and a Brooks B17 Saddle. Fast and Comfy.:thumb:

A slight change of pace. You've already seen this bike. Many of you have caved in and rated it "Hot" in the hope you'd never see again. No such luck!

But this isn't really about the bike. It's about the bike racks. I just saw these last weekend while sailing with my club. I'm too cheap to own my own boat so a I belong to a club and sail theirs. Anyway, the racks must be new because I'm there every week or two and never noticed them. I didn't have my camera with me then, so I decided to take a detour this morning, get a picture, and go for a dip before work to cool off.

There are other racks around town in the shape of bikes and whatnot but I really like these. So what do you think? Hot or not? Do any of you have some artistic racks in your area? Please share !

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If I would have been thinking I would have taken a picture of the building they are around (the sailing shed) which might have made them look better but I wanted to get the boats in the background. The building is below on the far right in this pic I grabbed from google. I've always liked these buildings anyway but I preferred them when they were painted a pale blue.

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Here's my 2012 Carve Expert. I stopped riding my road bike to work so that I could get more miles in the saddle on this bike in preparation for bikepacking trips. Bottles are on the fork, since they will need to be there when the full frame bag is on for bikepacking and I want to get used to reaching for them there. Tires are WTB Nanos so I can take the dirt roads on the Trinity River levees back on days that I have more time.

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