WINNER!

http://www.corystarr.com/interbike20...s/P1010116.JPG

End of thread

They just aren't canvases, are they?

Edit: Oh, well DONE Sir Robin! An adjustable stem and trainer wheels and there'd be no disputing your submission!

The new Arte in brown is FUGLY....also the one DrPete nominated is FUGLY...in person the Italian flag colors on the bike are overkill!

I think the frame isn't so bad, however those Red Chuck wagon Fulcrum wheels have to go, I think they're on the uglee side.

The sunflower frame must be at premium price, since they have to pay Graham Watson for his photo.

it isn't bad in the picture...my LBS has one hanging up that a customer order and it is just too much in person.

Really, how could it get worse in person? :lol:

I think it would look decent with a set of Black Carbon wheels like Lightweights or Lew's

I agree it might look better with different wheels....the LBS just has the frame hanging so I haven't seen it built up yet

Good god, not on a metallic blue frame.

OW! My eyes! My eyes!

It could get worse in person if a certain 400 watt dial-upper dropped you on your favourite hill whilst riding it. :eek: For just a second I channelled the matching kit.

Double whammy :D

My personal take.

Italian paint job- WOW!!! Fantastic.

Sunflowers- Artistic, but someone was smokin' somethin'. Maybe leftover from the 60's.

The Psycho thing- Well, it looks more like a box of Good N' Plenty.

That Psycho bike reminds me of a donut with sprinkles. Yum! :D

It doesn't suck.

You've posted the equivalent of a Ferrari with a ratty nose-bra and a cheesy set of rims... it may look bad, but swap out a few things and it's hot.

Give me an hour alone with that bike and well under 500 bucks- I could turn it into a nominee for the sexiest bike thread.

Rotate bars
replace saddle
new tires

and that bike is nice

I race against some guy who has an art frame just like robin of cocksley's WINNER. i never wanted to embarrass him by asking where he had it painted, but now I know it's a 'genuine original'... errr. I don't have to embarrass myself by asking now.

anyway, none of these colnagos are as ugly as mine. at least i ride it every day.

velospace 2743

http://velospace.org/files/col2_1adsfjjjjjj.jpg

I'm thinking you have pwned this thread.

It is obvious that the paint/design dept. at Colnago Inc. clearly amuses themselves by huffing metallic spray-paint all day. Their paint schemes are proof positive.

However, what's really UGLY are Shimano groupsets on ANY Colnago.

Ernesto is such a ****. They guy will do anything to sell more of them.

My Colnago CT 1 has the words "COLNAGO" on it no less than 13 times. Enough already! Some decals are in yellow on a blue and silver sceame. Are these guys are color blind at the factory? I used black electrical tape to tone it down. After riding my brothers Lightspeed (the one with the 'bat wings") I would say the CT 1 is not the BEST bike. It is true about the fact they can look really good as well as really bad.

That's just what I thought also, Gary!

... Brad

No, they're Italian.

http://www.colnago.com/en/catalogo20...IDENT-EGRS.jpg

I saw one of these at R&A, I think. The graphics are completely blurry and pixelated... enough to make a designer like me hang his head in shame. I won't even appraoch Colnago's complete lack of aesthetic sensibility on this one, but I would have expected that the technical execution be worthy of the brand.

As for that original post, the *only* thing "ugly" about the bike is the way the owner set it up. Has nothing to do with how it rolled out of the factory, IMO. Technically speaking, I could make my Tarmac equally as "ugly", but it's not.

Are those bars the same integrated stem/bars that Rad's Trek looks so good with?