Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

Those cranks would be unbalanced too ... he only drilled the drive side arm.

The description is fantastic "weight optimization"

"Hello!!
For auction is this lovely Colnago Master tribute single speed bike with cyclo cross fork, carbon seat post and a drilled Alu stem
(Based on a made in Germany/ lugged Staiger Trento frame (ca. 1970), Specialized fork (ca. 1990))
The frame was severely weight optimized.
Weight optimization based on reducing riders weight to 75 kg, ovalise-ing of tube/ reducing wall thickness slightly along triple butting principles and drilling of holes
I have run frames which have been optimized exactly like this for decades
The process is extremely time consuming, I have invested about 100 man hours in modify-ing this frame, therefore this bike is an absolute bargain for the lucky winner,
and should I not have moved on to another project, (I want a De Rosa 60 year edition now :-)) I would never sell….

There is a whole lot of love spent here, a lot of "fatto a mano", (made by hand) as one of my fabricators at Bertone/ Torino/ in Italy used to tell me, when the drillings would witness a slight irregularity :-)
So, according to the old Nuccio Bertone it was just ok to see, that it was made by hand :-)

Included in this auction:
complete single speed bike, as seen on pictures

Happy bidding :-)"