Columbus Max Appreciation

Lovely build.

I hope you stick with the tanwalls with all that silver and chrome and trad looks.

Absulutely striking, once again user75204. Still, downtube blips would be cool, it's the next hh thing.

:)

Typical trolling by the weather gods, build up a shiny chrome bike on Saturday and there's then zero sun all weekend, only coming out again when everyone has to go back to work on Monday.

All the chrome deserves a sunshine pic, and as we not likely to see much of the big orange orb in the sky over the coming months, I grabbed a pic with its sibling Tommasini in full shiny get up.

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That fork is also something innit

Yeah, I love all Max forks but the straight bladed ones are really distinctive and look great.

I've got some straight Max lugged fork blades I had made for my ti Merckx last year after Columbus decided to re-release Max, but think the original one piece all chrome ones still look the best, straight or curved versions.

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Seat post could do with a polish maybe ? But looking good ! Its a huge bike and i'm not much a fan of the old style ergo levers, but a nice bike overall ! The shamals were the right choice.

The Somec, the yellow one ? I managed to sort out the derailleur/shifter issue but my chain is too short so will have to update that.
And yeh the C40 is still in storage for now, I've been waiting to get more storage to build a couple of bikes up ;)

Thanks, as for the seatpost grrr that's a thing that really grinds gears. I couldn't tell from the original listing pics but it's been ultrasonically cleaned. I hate people that do this, cos what they've done is not clean it, no, they've stripped all the chrome off and fucked the look it, that's what they've done, fucked it. Stop with this shit.

nice: (not mine)
https://www.marktplaats.nl/v/fietsen-en-brommers/fietsen-racefietsen/m2199760916-grandis-overmax-dura-ace-2x10-mavic-r-sys-ksyrium-edco