Half Price Principa Track Frames

Not mine, but Ciclos Uno have a couple of Principa Track frames half price (£499 from £999).

this websites printed on bikes thing needs to be fecking stopped sharpish

agreed.

Is Ciclos Uno still going?

These frames were listed last spring.

And they look identical to the Dolan rubbish at a quarter of the price.

Agreed they look like shitty frames worth £150

what, you mean it's the same colour?

agreed, what a frame looks like definitely directly affects it's performance and ride quality.

hehehe

Unrelated to the frame above mostly but I thought Principia went bust years ago?

winston agreed, what a frame looks like definitely directly affects it's performance and ride quality.

i think you're being deliberately sarcastic for comic effect

The website stuff is probably stickers as that looks like an original Principia before they went bust and where taken over. In which case the colour is an anodised finish. Those frame are far from rubbish .. Principia's where handmade with custom to Principia tubing and they are regarded as probably the very best Alloy frames you could buy at the time - the Danish track team used a similar frame to the one advertised - any defect in the finish or the perfect tig welds and the frame was rejected by the craftsmen making them in Denmark, which is believed to be why they went bust! But beware if your buying that frame and fork (Issac Germany) will be very stiff to ride.

And yes, I am a little bias as I have one a 2005 track Principia set up with a front brake for road riding mileage at this time of the year.

adoubletap this websites printed on bikes thing needs to be fecking stopped sharpish

Not half. But if anyone's brave enough to buy one, I've got a couple of spare, bright pink cycling caps that match the frame.

Oswald any defect in the finish or the perfect tig welds and the frame was rejected by the craftsmen making them in Denmark, which is believed to be why they went bust!

excuse my ignorance but would these be the bust leftovers with "defects"?

and you lot better mop up soweto's caps t-mobile's stopped sponsoring a cycling team pink caps are going to get rare this summer :P

no edmundane that would be where they experimented with anodising carbon steel to save weight .. which causes rust puffs up and flakes off, constantly exposing new metal to corrosion.

it looks nothing like a dolan
thats all i have to offer lol

Liar! It's black! Are you blind!!! ;)

adoubletap this websites printed on bikes thing needs to be fecking stopped sharpish

Yep, I fucking hate that, it really cheapens the bike, it genuinely puts me off buying a frame.

i've got a website i'd like to see on a bike frame

i often borrow a friend's Principia road bike and love it.

i like that frame above but £500 is stretching the wilkinson exchequer a bit too far

this websites printed on bikes thing needs to be fecking stopped sharpish

Yep, I fucking hate that, it really cheapens the bike, it genuinely puts me off buying a frame.

so all the companies who are forward thinking enough to sponsor cycle teams and cycling events should not be allowed to advertise their wares?....so then we'd have no sponsors and no professional / high grade cycling events.....whooopeee!!!

these bikes are clearly pro team or at least sponsored riders bikes which were surplus to requirements.....my advice would be, if you're thinking of taking up track racing, grab yourself an absolute bargain and peel the offending stickers off.

winston [quote]this websites printed on bikes thing needs to be fecking stopped sharpish

Yep, I fucking hate that, it really cheapens the bike, it genuinely puts me off buying a frame.

so all the companies who are forward thinking enough to sponsor cycle teams and cycling events should not be allowed to advertise their wares?....so then we'd have no sponsors and no professional / high grade cycling events.....whooopeee!!!

these bikes are clearly pro team or at least sponsored riders bikes which were surplus to requirements.....my advice would be, if you're thinking of taking up track racing, grab yourself an absolute bargain and peel the offending stickers off.[/quote]

+1

Principia make absolutely superb high end alu track racing frames. Don't buy it though if your sick of you 60's British steel frame and are looking for an upgrade to ride around London. Pure racing machines these.

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Principia frames are an alu/viagra mix ;)