Columbus Max Appreciation

Well you'd be buying it from me and I'm neither of those, so I'll aim for the low end.

Thanks.

Lazy sale thread here.

I figured £300 for the frameset, £100 for Winston's work, £25 for shipping and another £25 low-ball margin.

I didn't see the sticker on the repaint but a beautiful Tommasini from stateside I bumped into while on a critical mass ride... Whenever in Houston lookout for it

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Nice hhsb but what makes you think this is Columbus Max?

I can't verify but the tube outside diameters/lug detail and shape of chromed fork led me to believe it was more special then other Columbus frames I have seen in my travels... The owner didn't specify in particular

Just looks like round tubes to me... Not ovalised. And those forks are 1" ahead so not original and I'm pretty sure they are aluminium.

You are probably right as I'm no expert nor did I take a magnet to the fork...

As Britney said, oops I've done it again.

Max x chrome x rad colour = my kryponite, I am weak knee'd, weak willed and utterly powerless to its charms.

Missing patches of paint from top tube but otherwise good condition, love the colour and all the chrome, up to and including the seat lug. One piece full chrome Max fork also hot as.

Also has weird rear derailleur cabling that goes through the drive side chainstay, out the bottom of the chainstay, along and through the chainstay cable guide before going through the bottom bracket, which I've not seen before.

Contacted Tommasini and they replied saying its an early Velocista from 1987, so the first year Columbus Max was available.

I've got a minty clean set of 8 speed shiny Campag Shamals that have been gathering dust, and so as I had 8 speed shifters and crank too, that decides the least cost build route. Arrived so quick I not got all parts yet but will be shiny silver campag all the way and should have all parts needed in next week to build it up, yay!

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Damn thats nice, what size is it?

Thanks, it's a 60cm frame

Supercool

Thanks, it's a 60cm frame

My size. Just sayin'.

Max x chrome x rad colour

Fails to mention its a Tommasini as of its nothing !

You can also go the MGOOF way with sram axs and glue some blips on the downtube :))

Hehe, I think this will be hard to part with.

Don't suppose you heard any news on your stolen bikes being recovered? Only saw that news recently, such a bummer, the Stockton especially was a real labour of love, and so distinctive so hopefully it will show up somewhere and be returned to you.

@ArthurDent haha, OK, Tommasini's are defintely something :)

@damskodonny ha! Even if they did a shìny silver version it would still defintely be a NO from me:)

I'm perfectly happy with front derailleurs and cassettes smaller than chainrings thanks very much:)

defintely be a NO from me:)

Thank god!

Dredge but cool bag. Does it say Basilea -Milano / San Gottardo?

Yes
It was made for 2015 ecmc in Milano
And was given to a guy that took part to the group ride going from Basel to Milano through the Alps

No news regarding my bikes yet - but I still have my fingers crossed.

Really cool, good on you to keep it

So 8 speed to match the shamals ? would make a great mgoof with a nice silver campy set or maybe even sram red mechanical

Sorry for late reply, but just finished buulding it and got a quick snap before dark.

With all that chrome it had to be a silver groupset build to match the silver wheels, and had to be gumwall tyres. Shame there's going to be no sunshine till midweek so shiny sunshine pics will have to wait.

Parts are a mish mash of what I had already including the stem which I'd prefer was silver, but I'm not going to bother changing it now. Mostly Chorus group tho FD and brakes are newer generation ones.

@ArthurDent so you finished the Somec? Didn't you have a C40 in progress too?

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Very nice! Would look even better with black tyres I think

Thanks. I don't have any spare black clinchers, but I've got some classic Open Pave tubs so we can test that hypothesis:)

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