Bike porn

not porn have you seen the cranks?

But what about the matching red valve caps?

But what about the matching red valve caps?

Haa yer that's the laziest colour coordination I've ever seen.

'ahhh shit nothin matches'

'hang on I've got these 4p red dusties....'

Colnago Super Single + £1399.99 = Default Anti for the whole 2010 range.

2010 Colnago range

That bike looks shockingly similar to tifosi and nelson pista, both of which are really good value at £200ish.

^ wow, talk about watering-down a brand. That looks pretty shite ^

This piece of shit is what Mobius consider worthy. We'd have no trouble.

:)

all the gear and no idea.

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haha, this'll get some backs-up.

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^ wow, talk about watering-down a brand.

You think that's bad? The Super Singlespeed has Tektro brakes, FFS. I like my Tektros, but even at OEM pricing Campag Veloce could only have been a fiver extra.

What chainset does the Pista have? It's not an FSA Vero is it?

2010 Colnago range

Much rather have one of these (think the F&F go for about the same price?)...

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haha, this'll get some backs-up.

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I don't get why the above Colnago got chosen to be posted... surely this ones better:

although this* is better than both:

• only the headtube shot - the whole bike is a bit much... better in small peices IMO
  

I like;

for dura ace lovers
http://www.cucuma.com/images/bikes/schaltwerk-gr.jpg

I like;

oooh, sweet, wish i could get my araya's that shiny!

for dura ace lovers
http://www.cucuma.com/images/bikes/schaltwerk-gr.jpg

World's first 29er specific rear derailleur? :-)

I don't get why the above Colnago got chosen to be posted... surely this ones better:

Horrible bars, stem should be a quill if you're going to do retro, solid chainring also jars, needs real brake levers, and of course the Tektro brakes. Just wrong in so many ways, and £1400 ffs. They might as well throw in a forehead tattoo anouncing buyers as more-money-than-sense hipster dickheads.

that cream colnago looks so chargeplug'y.. i like the plug, but not if it says colnago on it. ruin.

Horrible bars, stem should be a quill if you're going to do retro, solid chainring also jars, needs real brake levers, and of course the Tektro brakes. Just wrong in so many ways, and £1400 ffs. They might as well throw in a forehead tattoo anouncing buyers as more-money-than-sense hipster dickheads.

I think that the bars whole thing is unremarkable, not anti-porn.

The main problems people have with this bike seems to be a) the price and b) the pedestal that they've put Colnagos on. If it was any other brand, everyone would have done "over priced, but hardly anti-porn".

If it was any other brand, everyone would have done "over priced, but hardly anti-porn".

hear, hear

If it was any other brand, everyone would have done "over priced, but hardly anti-porn".

If it was any other brand, it would have been half the price.

The problem is that a Colnago C50 isn't actually better than a Trek Madone in any way which is meaningful to the majority of buyers, so the name is everything. If you kill the brand by attaching it to crap, you have to be damn sure the volume of crap you can ship will make up for the loss of top end business as snobs dessert you.

In the olden days, Colnago did what fashion houses did when they wanted to sell to paupers; they created a 'diffusion' line (Colnago Sport), so people with the real label could still look down on them, but paupers could buy into some of the brand cachet.

With a few careful, and not expensive, deviations from what the Chinese factory was trying to offload, Colnago could have made this a real Colnago. As price doesn't seem to have been a key driver of the specification process, it would surely have been better to have a made a proper Colnago for £1500 rather than a rebadged Plug for £1400.

If it was any other brand, it would have been half the price.

The problem is that a Colnago C50 isn't actually better than a Trek Madone in any way which is meaningful to the majority of buyers, so the name is everything. If you kill the brand by attaching it to crap, you have to be damn sure the volume of crap you can ship will make up for the loss of top end business as snobs dessert you.

In the olden days, Colnago did what fashion houses did when they wanted to sell to paupers; they created a 'diffusion' line (Colnago Sport), so people with the real label could still look down on them, but paupers could buy into some of the brand cachet.

With a few careful, and not expensive, deviations from what the Chinese factory was trying to offload, Colnago could have made this a real Colnago. As price doesn't seem to have been a key driver of the specification process, it would surely have been better to have a made a proper Colnago for £1500 rather than a rebadged Plug for £1400.

While I'm not disagreeing with that statement (the frame looks very similar to one of the new Konas), my statement was about whether or not it warranted being in the anti-porn thread.

As far as I know, porn status has nothing to do with value for money. I get that people are disappointed in Colnago for being lazy, but is it an ugly bike? No, it's an over priced bike.

If this was an anti-bargain thread, I'd not dispute its inclusion, but it isn't and as such it shouldn't be in here.

While I'm not disagreeing with that statement (the frame looks very similar to one of the new Konas), my statement was about whether or not it warranted being in the anti-porn thread.

This is the Porn thread, so I was commenting on whether it was worthy of inclusion here. So far, people have resisted the temptation to drop it in the anti-porn thread.