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Right, this is my thread and you fucks have debased it so I will post about what I want to talk about.
My Condor pista is dead, as mentioned in that other thread. So I went to Condor last night to chat about getting a replacement frame. Of course, I managed to upsell myself to a Pista Classico, which is nice. But, the advice I got last night was total balls:
"Yes, your existing stem and bars will work fine with the classico's steel, threaded forks and steerer"
"Don't ride a potenza on the road, it is track specific so it has a lower BB and you will get pedal strike on the road."
me: "why does it have brake holes and cable guides then?"
"because some people like to have brakes n the track becasue they ride big gears that are hard to slow"
"your steel frame cracked after 3.5 years, well at least you got a decent length of life out of it."
"yes, even though the geometries of the pista and the classico are totally different, you won't need to be re-sized. They'll be exactly the same"
On and on. It got kind of funny after a while.
So I have spent most of this morning on the phone to a really nice and knowledgeable guy there who has sorted everything out.
Oh well, mustn't grumble, apart from that one guy's bad advice, they are being really great to me and replacing the frame, and throwing in a big discount on changing stem and bars, even though it was out of warranty.
Chapeau to (most) of Condor.