Non-fixed-gear, but what the hell.....

i reckon only an (original) cylon could get away with driving the shiny ferrari.

If red wasn't my favourite colour I would say blue.

sorry to piss on the parade, but if it is the goverment funded cycle to work scheme, your only allowed up to 1k

sorry to piss on the parade, but if it is the goverment funded cycle to work scheme, your only allowed up to 1k

There's no upper limit. However, most employers limit the scheme to £1k because they need a consumer credit license to loan more than this.

http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/sustainable/cycling/cycletoworkschemeimplementat5732?page=1

sorry to piss on the parade, but if it is the goverment funded cycle to work scheme, your only allowed up to 1k

Reading the thread is hard, isn't it?

Rabobank team colours, which does'nt really fit timeline wise with style of the frame I admitt.

The orange is actually Molteni team colours as Colnago supplied frames, branded as Eddy Merckx, to the Molteni team. De Rosa also supplied them at a different point so they've done a similar scheme for the Neo Primat.

sorry to piss on the parade, but if it is the goverment funded cycle to work scheme, your only allowed up to 1k

negatory...to repeat, employers can apply for a special licence (costs 750quid) so employees can exceed the grand threshold.

Photobe: yeah, Langsters still goin strong on my commute...the Colnago will be my new summer sportive ride. Highend Campo group-set.

I love the blue and the orange, and was swaying to blue, but as I'm a contrary old fecker and the orange seems less popular I now kinda like it!! Thanks to you all.

EDIT - apologies for the slow reply, I'm getting a weak connection.....

The orange is actually Molteni team colours as Colnago supplied frames, branded as Eddy Merckx, to the Molteni team. De Rosa also supplied them at a different point so they've done a similar scheme for the Neo Primat.

thanks Andy...that helps alot too...can you post the URL to that pick?

No problem;

http://www.cyclesdeoro.com/Interbike/2003/interbike_03_pics2.htm

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Reading the thread is hard, isn't it?
easy girl back off there, i did read the thread, hence why i thought i best pipe as my shop has only ever done up to 1k and ive known no different, so didnt what the fella to get all excited , simple huh.

oh and id go for orange

personally don't like the colnago-branded orange. just looks a bit wrong not to have merckx written there...

between blue and red then i reckon red - but you've discounted that! ;-)

red or blue. do they fund for you to get all the bits and pieces you need to?

I think that the orange and blue although gorgeous, just isn't what a colnago is about. I reckon the blues the nicest, although you shouldn't go without thinking of Mercian (as then you'd also be able to pick any colour under the sun ;D)

Oh yeah, the whole hog + any gear, all tax free. Maybe a new Chrome too.....in yellow to offset the orange?

The red is lovely. So is the blue. And the orange. Hence the poll.
Sad to say that I work for a company that employs 250 in London and I'd be surprised if more than 15 of them use this scheme, and those that do will get a 500quid hybrid. Praise the Lord, the guy in charge is a roadie, hence the no-limit issue.

EDIT: when (if) my Langster finally breaks I'll get a fixed Merc or a BJ in fine silver. But my Langster just keeps going.

Just don't get made redundant shortly after you've bought it and have to pay for the whole thing in one go.

blue. colnago make lovely bikes. not my thing, but they are good.

Mal loved that. She can recognise a 'nago from 200m now, since seeing this bike.
7.5k tho.. fuck that.

What size frame do you need, may not be what you want but GB cycles in Croydon have one of these in their sale, size 54, in red but with horizontal track drop-outs for £650. The rear spacing on it is 130mm, not 120mm, which makes it a bit of a strange beast, seems they ordered one with vertical drop-outs and this one turned up, but re-spacing a 120mm hub to 130mm shouldn't be a major problem. I'm not particularly a Colnago fan and not saying this is necessarily what I'd spend £650 on, but it is half price and the frame is utterly gorgeous :D

The orange is actually Molteni team colours as Colnago supplied frames, branded as Eddy Merckx, to the Molteni team. De Rosa also supplied them at a different point so they've done a similar scheme for the Neo Primat.

The blue banding made me think of this. No idea though TBH

Colnago Master X light - Orange,
Chrome fork (onre of those sexy straight ones),
Yellow bar tape,
Gum wall Veloflex tyres in black,
Campagnolo gruppo (silver),
Cinelli finishing kit (silver),
low profile rimmed wheels, 32 spoke 3x, and
This saddle.

Oh, and BTW
I'd like thee frame to be 20",
And the bars to be narrow with a shallow drop.

Popped into Sigma Sport to see a blue 56cm (I need a 58) and it was just what I expected.
Pity they didnt have the orange.....its still behind in the poll but I'm still undecided between it and the blue, with a slight slant to the blue, that will have reverted to the orange by tomorrow!

What I wasnt expecting was to be dazzled by the titanium Sevens!.......I almost left a deposit on one (thats another story.....) but I restrained myself and walked away to sleep on it. But no. I'd rather the Colnago fully loaded over an entry level Seven with 105s (3000!). And titanium will eventually become a more common, easier to produce material by the time my Colnago is a lump of rust, surely? (By which time I will undoubtedly be past caring).

Oh, yeah.....the credit crunch - there wasn't much sign of it at Sigma Sport this afternoon, they were almost queuing round the block!

What I wasnt expecting was to be dazzled by the titanium Sevens!.......I almost left a deposit on one (thats another story.....) but I restrained myself and walked away to sleep on it. But no. I'd rather the Colnago fully loaded over an entry level Seven with 105s (3000!). And titanium will eventually become a more common, easier to produce material by the time my Colnago is a lump of rust, surely? (By which time I will undoubtedly be past caring).

I doubt titanium will become more common, it's very expensive to produce and work. Ugo de Rosa thinks it the perfect frame building material but the cost of producing it means it'll never be mainstream.

Red Saronni Colnago Master X FTW. I wanted to get one, too, but was told that they didn't make them in my measurements. :( (OTP doesn't work well for me, annoyingly.)

Red! and that's an order. People have been waiting years for that colour scheme. put on the chrome forks and bingo! oh, and veloflex tyres ofcourse.
My colnago is purple; well, purple and green and red and silver and....