de rosa idol nero 4888= WOW

Crankmeister
Crankmeister Posts: 274
edited November 2009 in Road buying advice
This new frame is beautiful DE ROSA idol nero 4888 who will have them in the uk though? i want one soon

http://www.derosanews.com/derosa/module ... 2&bcid=439

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Tesco.
  • pmsl 4472 posts on here and still have the ability to make peaple laugh damn youve got talent :lol:
  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    The previous Idol - must that it was a lovely looking bike - didn't have a reputation for being a smooth ride and looking at those tube junctions, looks like it won't be on my lust-list either. And I'm still trying to work out the acronym for TESCO...
    Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Monty Dog wrote:
    The previous Idol - must that it was a lovely looking bike - didn't have a reputation for being a smooth ride and looking at those tube junctions, looks like it won't be on my lust-list either. And I'm still trying to work out the acronym for TESCO...

    What does Tesco stand for?

    A wide range of products at competitive prices.
  • NapoleonD wrote:
    Monty Dog wrote:
    The previous Idol - must that it was a lovely looking bike - didn't have a reputation for being a smooth ride and looking at those tube junctions, looks like it won't be on my lust-list either. And I'm still trying to work out the acronym for TESCO...

    What does Tesco stand for?

    A wide range of products at competitive prices.
    tesco means easy parking a large shopping centre with a fresh fish department ?
  • Monty Dog wrote:
    The previous Idol - must that it was a lovely looking bike - didn't have a reputation for being a smooth ride and looking at those tube junctions, looks like it won't be on my lust-list either. And I'm still trying to work out the acronym for TESCO...

    well i must say i do want a comfy ride
    i have other options

    Cannondale Super SIX Hi-Mod Dura Ace
    Cannondale synapse himod durace
    Scott CR1 SL 20 2010 Road Bike

    and still looking

    less wise cracks and more advice would be the call of the day neopolianD :lol:
  • skyd0g
    skyd0g Posts: 2,540
    ...don't the UK Pennines have two n's in the middle?
    ...or are the Penines an area occasionally visited by le Tour in the Basque region? :wink:
    Cycling weakly
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Its gonna be in Bikehut.
  • giant_man
    giant_man Posts: 6,878
    I wasn't impressed with the previous Idol which I did ride, was far too cushioned for me. Far too dampened for my style of riding. It was smooth of course but most carbon frames of this standard are. They don't like much different with this new model, but I'm sure it's more expensive of course.

    A ride on the Wilier Cento Uno confirmed for me the far better ride. I like to feel the road I'm riding on for one thing. I wouldn't buy an Idol.
  • nicensleazy
    nicensleazy Posts: 2,310
    Yeah, I'm not sold on the new Idol. I see it at the London bike show this year. I prefer the old Idol, which I once owned. If I bought a De Rosa now, then I would go for the KIng RS
  • Is the downtube made of bits of Lockheed Hercules fuselage?
  • ademort
    ademort Posts: 1,924
    The new 2010 frameset is available from Math selden for €2310.
    Ademort
    ademort
    Chinarello, record and Mavic Cosmic Sl
    Gazelle Vuelta , veloce
    Giant Defy 4
    Mirage Columbus SL
    Batavus Ventura
  • Scrumple
    Scrumple Posts: 2,665
    gary gopshop, that thing...
  • Scrumple wrote:
    gary gopshop, that thing...
    what?
  • ademort
    ademort Posts: 1,924
    Scrumple wrote:
    gary gopshop, that thing...
    In English please?
    Ademort
    ademort
    Chinarello, record and Mavic Cosmic Sl
    Gazelle Vuelta , veloce
    Giant Defy 4
    Mirage Columbus SL
    Batavus Ventura
  • Scrumple
    Scrumple Posts: 2,665
    Gopping

    Icky

    Yuck

    No thank you
  • scrumple
    that crap your smoking is playing with your mind you may think your funny but frank may disagree,go and have words with him and yourself and find your way back to normaliity.
    or just give me a nod as you ride by on your bike from halfords and i will leave you in a hedge :lol:
  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    It doesn't look very aero dynamic does it? But I'm sure they thought of that.
    'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,925
    Personally think it's hideous but beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that!
  • giant_man
    giant_man Posts: 6,878
    To me it's not really how something looks but how it feels. The handling and how the bike responds is the most important thing to me when looking for a new bike. I wouldn't care what name is on the tubing, and the big names don't impress me without a test ride.

    The Idol was one such bike.
  • Scrumple
    Scrumple Posts: 2,665
    scrumple
    that crap your smoking is playing with your mind you may think your funny but frank may disagree,go and have words with him and yourself and find your way back to normaliity.
    or just give me a nod as you ride by on your bike from halfords and i will leave you in a hedge :lol:


    It is pig ugly, and I am sober and lucid.

    I'm less lucid after having to look at it. That will date more than a Zimbabwean dollar.

    And my bike is so far from Halfords it is untrue. I think being "funny" is not respecting others having a view, and your narcissism is sad. Are you sure you are always right?

    If we end up in a hedge, my titanium frame will be undamaged, and your carbon monstrosity will most likely look better after a few lumps of its engorged structure are left in the ditch.

    You can't buy style, my man.
  • At last you spoke english.i valued that at lot more than the dribble you spouted out earlier thanks for your input.Although it aint my frame its De rosa,s frame :wink:

    If you read back im going to settle for a connondale or a scott

    not sure as yet as im going to test ride a few first before i seetle on anything.
  • Scrumple
    Scrumple Posts: 2,665
    Before, I was too overcome with emotion to speak.

    I have compsed myself.

    (as for the "yours" bit, I was taking some dramatic liberty, for comic effect)
  • I like it.
  • well if anything ive got a few opinions from peaple regarding de rosa,s new idol frame.now every one has there own taste and style and like previously mentioned somewhere "no one is right or wrong."
    personally i think its quite different from the norm and its sort of thinking out of the box.clearly making a statement.wether that suits you as an individual is entirely up to you and your wallet.I wont be buying one myself but i think its quite a modern style.