Colnago C50 Pista

'wish i had the cash for that' ribbing

If I did and I was only "allowed" to buy bikes....I'd buy two....a custom, hand-built steel track frame from someone like Chas Roberts or Brian Rourke and an off the peg Scandium complete road bike with Ultegra....no doubt I'd still have quite bit of change from what the Colnago "frame only" would cost.....oh dear hope I don't turn this thread into a "what you buy with £X" discussion!!!

Lois Einhorn I think you'd get more
pleasure out of planning to buy it and planning the modifications and stroking it

So his hobby is building and specing bikes as well as riding, whats wrong with that? I get a lot of pleasure out of maintainance and building bikes too as it gets the mind working in a different way to reading and studying. I think If he buys the bike he will have fun specing it, fun building it and fun riding it. Sounds like a lot of fun to me!

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dicki when you can climb highgate hill fixed then you can buy that as a gift to yourself !! set yourself a target and when you acheive it then treat yourself
working towards owning a bike like should be a long slow tortuous thing makes the waiting all the more worthwhile !!

i made it the first time i tried and thought thr most valuable gift i could get myself was a bottle of still water ;)

Buy it it's fookin lush.

get a custom ti road/track bike it will last longer than a plastic bike

was that "cristalline" water from LIDL at 10p or VOSS designer water at £4.50?

The more you spend on water the better your performance will be.....same goes for bikes too.

Nah, it was peckham spring.

Hehe.

I just made tea for the builders I have in fitting my new fort knox door and locks. They asked for milk plus two sugars. I drink my tea and coffee black (like my men), and for the life of me I couldn't find the sugar anywhere. Found some eventually though, handed them over to quizzical looks and "I thought you said you had no sugar"... couldn't help but think of Black Adder Goes Forth...

Edmund: Baldrick, fix us some coffee, will you? And try to make it taste slightly less like mud this time.

Baldrick: Not easy, I'm afraid, Captain.

Edmund: Why is this?

Baldrick: 'cause it is mud. We ran out of coffee thirteen months ago.

Edmund: So every time I've drunk your coffee since, I have in fact been drinking hot mud...

Baldrick: With sugar.

Edmund: Which of course makes all the difference.

Baldrick: Well, it would do if we had any sugar, but, unfortunately, we ran out New Year's Eve 1915, since when I've been using sugar substitute.

Edmund: Which is...?

Baldrick: Dandruff.

Edmund: Brilliant.

Baldrick: Still, I could add some milk this time -- well, saliva...

Edmund: No, no, thank you, Baldrick. Call me Mr Picky, but I think I'll cancel the coffee.

Plastic?

as in: fibreglass is also known as GRP (glass reinforced plastic)

as Carbon frames are made in a similar way does that mean they are "CRP" ???!!!!

Carbon frames = plastic frames. Derogatory term I picked up in Oz from 'steel is real' frame builder types. :)

I've seen Airport too many times.

"Sorry, I'm just nervous"
"Is this your first time?"
"No, I've been nervous lots of times before."

"Surely you cannot be serious."
"I'm deadly serious, and please, stop calling me Shirley."

"You ever been in a cockpit before?"
"No sir, I've never been up in a plane before."
"You ever seen a grown man naked?"

so if you were only allowed to own a bike that directly corrolated to your cycling prowess what would it be - go on, be honest...

http://www.back2bikes.org.uk/forsale/97.jpg

what I've already got probably....a Veto!

Cheap, angry, rough-around-the-edges, poorly-maintained, heavyish: just like my alu Peugeot and the Ribble I have now.
Does the job, minimum fuss.
Tries to bling but could never really impress :)

winston ok.....

I'd like to know the answer to that question too actually

First answer from Richard Sachs, via his blog, and originally posted to the Serotta forum:
http://richardsachs.blogspot.com/2006/10/sorry-i-have-left-this-page-unattended.html

It's a great blog post. If you can't be bothered reading it all, the line that sums it up is, "framebuilders build frames to build frames".

Get this and you'll have the sprit of Merckx making you go faster:

I love one of those puppies.

I'll bung this one into the mix.

How about building your own? I did it because I was starting to look at condor pistas thinking hmm thats not so much after all, then id rationalise myself to the next level and the next till I was spending serious money. In a more sober moment I thought, for riding round london a pure track frame aint going to be right for me, I wanted twitchy road angles, a BB wich wasnt to far off the ground and a geometry for my ape like build (long body and short legs - but not a dwarf). Right custom steel is the way to go. Cue dave yates's course and after a few chats on the phone he's sorted out a build for me to come and produce (speccing individual tubes can be done if needed). I spent five days at his workshop building my own frame (quality control is good as he watches everything you do and wasnt afraid to say thats not good enough do it again) which is truly cherrished (and fits like a glove).

So as much as I was tempted by carbon track bling. For £1k I got a bike handmade by me, totally custom, to the extent of sizing, tubes, ride, even brazing a bottle opener to the bb shell. If you have to spend the cash this is a satisfying way of doing it. At the same time it gives an appreciation of the framebuilders 'art' and the bunkum which is spouted too.

ahhhhhhhhh
ive been looking into doing that course, i really would love to do it but at the moment its out of the question

maybe in a couple of years (so i should book now lol)

your bike is really nice btw

velocity boy Hehe.

I just made tea for the builders I have in fitting my new fort knox door and locks.

Is that in case you meet any more psycho bints at that bar? :-P

It's so the Colnago Pista he's just laid the deposit on stays where it belongs! :)

David, I think you mean 'Airline!'

'It's a big building with patients in it, but that's not important right now.'

How about you get the Colnago, I'll get the BMC. Someone was riding a beautiful BMC road bike on Sunday at the cyclosportif. I can get it at least 10% cheaper in Switzerland, and I'll be there quite soon. Not sure I can resist. Mmm, but there is rent to pay and food to buy...