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Restored my 1983 Colnago Master. Full respray and then a shedload of simichrome polish and several hours with the steel wool. Worth the worn out fingertips and knuckles to see an old classic back in roadworthy condition. (Please ignore the pedals they are there to let me try it out, buffing up the original "toe baskets" as Sean Kelly calls them at the moment). Hopefully this gets to a few vintage sportif's next year.
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Darkglasses wrote: »In my eyes, old steel bikes all look much more similar to each other than current carbon ones. All a matter of opinion.
I would tend to agree. Hence I have just the one sitting right next to (amongst others) a Cervelo S2, S5, R3SL, P4 and Specialized Shiv and I wouldn't swap any of them for the Colnago if you put a gun to my head and made me choose. Although the purists will tell you its less about the looks with old steel and more about the feel.
The attraction for me with the old Colnago is both as a leisure machine for a few vintage sportif's if I want to take a break from racing. But mostly its just nostalgia. For those of us of a certain age, this (or similar) was the superbike of its day. My first cheapo racer in the mid 80s was a nasty eastern european copy of this in the saronni red colour scheme, when I outgrew that one my second was an arguably even nastier one which was obviously a UK supermarket brand rip off. All along though I had a poster on the wall of this exact Colnago and it was always as unattainable to the 12 year old me as a Ferrari would have been. So when I got a bit older, I was sitting there one day amongst about 50k worth of a bike collection thinking, I might be 30 years late, but I'm having that Colnago. And when I am done with that I will find another project (Next project will be a 5kg Cervelo R5 I think).
I would disagree that you could throw a Colnago logo on any old frame though. For a start the master has "star shaped" i.e. non round tubing initially Columbus Gilco, which is pretty much unique. It is also pantographed quite heavily although subtley especially in the chromework. And the geometry is all over the map compared to far more standardised modern machines. This one is low and short in the flesh, whilst most from that era are low and long at the front. Generally I found the the geometry varied wildly, which is fair enough as although many were mass produced, custom jobs were relatively common compared to nowadays. They also came at one point in approximately 23 different sizing and geometry options.
Check out what I mean about the pantographing (engraving) here and the unusual tube shapes: Loads more in the bike e.g. under the BB etc...
Dermot Illogical, I didn't paint myself, I had a UK company do it. It was quite expensive, even with me doing the paint stripping but when you have your mind set on something you may as well pay the money. I did however save the whole original Campagnolo Super Record groupset with quite a lot of manual labour.0 -
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I would tend to agree. Hence I have just the one sitting right next to (amongst others) a Cervelo S2, S5, R3SL, P4 and Specialized Shiv and I wouldn't swap any of them for the Colnago if you put a gun to my head and made me choose. Although the purists will tell you its less about the looks with old steel and more about the feel.
The attraction for me with the old Colnago is both as a leisure machine for a few vintage sportif's if I want to take a break from racing. But mostly its just nostalgia. For those of us of a certain age, this (or similar) was the superbike of its day. My first cheapo racer in the mid 80s was a nasty eastern european copy of this in the saronni red colour scheme, when I outgrew that one my second was an arguably even nastier one which was obviously a UK supermarket brand rip off. All along though I had a poster on the wall of this exact Colnago and it was always as unattainable to the 12 year old me as a Ferrari would have been. So when I got a bit older, I was sitting there one day amongst about 50k worth of a bike collection thinking, I might be 30 years late, but I'm having that Colnago. And when I am done with that I will find another project (Next project will be a 5kg Cervelo R5 I think).
I would disagree that you could throw a Colnago logo on any old frame though. For a start the master has "star shaped" i.e. non round tubing initially Columbus Gilco, which is pretty much unique. It is also pantographed quite heavily although subtley especially in the chromework. And the geometry is all over the map compared to far more standardised modern machines. This one is low and short in the flesh, whilst most from that era are low and long at the front.
Check out what I mean about the pantographing (engraving) here and the unusual tube shapes: Loads more in the bike e.g. under the BB etc...
Dermot Illogical, I didn't paint myself, I had a UK company do it. It was quite expensive but when you have your mind set on something you may as well pay the money. I did however save the whole original Campagnolo Super Record groupset with quite a lot of manual labour.
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petethedrummer wrote: »Because that's how a bike is supposed to look. Not like a two wheeled bat mobile.
Nah
give me a batmobile anyday over a bike made of shiny scaffolding.
Road bikes should look aggressive, like they'd bite your head off.
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Lusk_Doyle wrote: »Don't mind them Brian, they're stuck in the past. Probably have no tv signal after the aerial was taken down by the man!
I still have an aerial on the roof.(though redundant)
But I also have this..
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