Are they all the same???

aogan

I've been shopping for a while now, and either I'm going gee-eyed, so to speak, or there's one massive factory in Asia stamping out a zillion generic carbon frames a week for bespoke stickering and decal'ing in warehouses all over the world

I'm being a little facetious, but there's a definite "samey" tear drop profile trend to be seen in the frame design of a lot of the current crop of bikes available

If I removed the labels, how easily could you pick out the Bottecchia from the Specialized, from the Basso, from the Bianchi.

Or maybe you just can't judge a bike by its press pic...






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Bobbinogs

I think if you look closely, despite the fact that the bikes are all similar, the Spesh is definitely the best

Evil Laugh

Incorrect, it's the Bianchi.

Note absence of identikit red-white-black paint job.

:P

Evil Laugh

You could go for a Planet X, they look like BMXs.

*hides*

STEFANOS4784

One word, Kuota 8)

kingrollo

aogan wrote:

I've been shopping for a while now, and either I'm going gee-eyed, so to speak, or there's one massive factory in Asia stamping out a zillion generic carbon frames a week for bespoke stickering and decal'ing in warehouses all over the world

I'm being a little facetious, but there's a definite "samey" tear drop profile trend to be seen in the frame design of a lot of the current crop of bikes available

If I removed the labels, how easily could you pick out the Bottecchia from the Specialized, from the Basso, from the Bianchi.

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Fair point - but hasn't this always been the case ? - if you go back to steel bikes - you have the same issue - how different can a racing bike be ? - even without UCI regs.

And in my experience, a 'good' paint job - Lasts. I have a pinarello which the paint has hardly chipped on , and still polishes up like new.

Smokin Joe

Took me about 30 seconds to spot the differences in each frame.

To take Kingrollos's point, in times of yore you could have had a dozen steel frames built by different people and they would look identical, as the number of tube and lug suppliers was very limited.