Serotta - Appreciation // Owners

jealous of the stem, did you get that with the frame as well? There's one on ebay for $225...absolutely nuts

same frame as I have in the '99 catalog with the stem

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^That is pretty much the twin of my CSi:

Which is lugged, has the swaged down and seat tubes, head-ons, Serotta branded carbon fork with a threaded 853 steerer.

I didn't think that the Colorado was produced in parallel?

You can see that my Colorado CR has most of the same features, but it has shifter bosses on the downtube due to being from the period when downtube shifters were still commonly used:

Which is (I believe) as it was the precursor to the CSi.

The Colorado on eBay has the features of a 2,000+ CSi, I think.

And yes, stem came with the Colorado, I bought one from US eBay for the CSi.

Sometime in the mid-nineties they renamed the Colorado to CSi, possibly because at that point steel became less prominent in their line-up and they didn't want to brand Colorado tubing, which came to encompass Ti and carbon, as exclusively steel.

At the same time, there was the Atlanta, a step below the CSi in terms of tubing, and that evolved into the Colorado III in 2001, which was closer to the CSi (triple-butted main triangle), but without lugs and fewer paint options. The Colorado III was rebranded CIII in the mid-aughts.

Ah, ok - so the Colorado on eBay is a TIG'd evolution of the Atlanta. Interesting!

Do any of the Serotta experts have a view on whether the fork on the frame linked to upthread https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/152618468250 is OEM or aftermarket.

Compare the images to this:

@dammit would you mind spelling out your point for the slow of thinking?

There are a bunch of Serotta specific carbon forks, but from memory (which may be unreliable) they all have naked titanium dropouts:

Which the eBay bike's don't, which means that if OEM Serotta they'd likely be Reynolds Ouzo Pro, which are the ones in the above picture, and I think look fairly close to those on the bike in the eBay auction.

@Dammit is correct. The OEM Serotta forks have raw Ti tips.

@Dammit and @*matt. Thanks both

It's states in the eBay listing that the fork is an Ouzo Pro.

That's a pretty good way of identifying the fork.

Haha good detective work

Some had alu tips but these were even recalled so ud not want one of those regardless

Frame has sold, so academic now. It was a very nice paint job but the lack of provenance on the ebay listing concerned me....

I'm thinking of having mine resprayed in fading "apple candy" colours but still doubting which ones...

https://goo.gl/images/NTCvKy

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Serotta-Tri-Colorado-650c-55H-53V-Frameset-/302393173907?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368

A homecoming...

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crosspost from CP

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Dreamy.

thanks. Just not completely happy with the stem. Will look for a Thomson, I think.

Looks great.....the beauty of a Serotta is, it'll ride even better!

so this arrived from ebay yesterday - previously the property of @gouache and featured on page one of this thread. got a full 6800 groupset to go on it

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I was watching this. Trying to muster up the courage/cash to claim it. Looks incred.