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  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    They are still one of the few makes used on the pro tour so they cant be too bad.

    Bike companies pay to sponsor a team, so it's down to how much they pay not about the product.
    Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..
  • roypsb
    roypsb Posts: 309
    More than happy with my chavvy Wilier in black with fluorescent.

    I'd go with a Wilier Cento Uno but the Bianchi Oltre's are also gorgeous.
  • pride4ever
    pride4ever Posts: 510
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    Thread/
    the deeper the section the deeper the pleasure.
  • hipshot
    hipshot Posts: 371
    Too many of these Italian bikes are cluttered logo-fests these days. Less shouty graphics and more flair and elegance please.
  • thescouselander
    thescouselander Posts: 549
    I'd rather walk than buy anything from an Italian.
  • pride4ever
    pride4ever Posts: 510
    thescouselander wrote:
    I'd rather walk than buy anything from an Italian.


    explain.
    the deeper the section the deeper the pleasure.
  • thescouselander
    thescouselander Posts: 549
    pride4ever wrote:
    thescouselander wrote:
    I'd rather walk than buy anything from an Italian.


    explain.

    Just personal prejudice. My experience of both Italians and Italian engineering is not good at all.
  • smidsy
    smidsy Posts: 5,273
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    Yellow is the new Black.
  • smoggysteve
    smoggysteve Posts: 2,909
    Looks a lot better colour scheme than the Basso Astra's with the ugly B motif on the side of head tube.
  • On_What
    On_What Posts: 516
    Wilier
  • fevmeister
    fevmeister Posts: 353
    De rosa cos I've never seen one out before
  • pride4ever
    pride4ever Posts: 510
    thescouselander wrote:
    pride4ever wrote:
    thescouselander wrote:
    I'd rather walk than buy anything from an Italian.


    explain.

    Just personal prejudice. My experience of both Italians and Italian engineering is not good at all.
    Sounds like youve been very unlucky then.
    the deeper the section the deeper the pleasure.
  • smidsy
    smidsy Posts: 5,273
    Of course he has, he lives in Liverpool. Oh is that a bit prejudice? :-)
    Yellow is the new Black.
  • giant_man
    giant_man Posts: 6,878
    Fevmeister wrote:
    De rosa cos I've never seen one out before
    Nothing special believe me, least impressive to ride too imo
  • fevmeister
    fevmeister Posts: 353
    giant man wrote:
    Fevmeister wrote:
    De rosa cos I've never seen one out before
    Nothing special believe me, least impressive to ride too imo


    Ahh very interesting, never tested one just always thought they looked good. I spotted the top one on wiggle its like 13k, crazy money that's even past super bike territory!
  • neeb
    neeb Posts: 4,473
    I've come near to buying Italian carbon framesets at various times, but have never managed to get good enough customer service / information from them to actually know what I am buying, so I've basically given up on the lot of them. Nearly all of them flat-out refuse to provide full geometry information (fork rake, integrated seatmast offsets etc) and they usually don't answer emails. I've basically come to the conclusion that they don't give a feck and they are only making a profit these days based on their styling and fake Italian mystique. The American, other European and Asian brands are nearly all a lot more straightforward and helpful.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,599
    Legend 10.5 (previously would have been a hand built Viner) with SR but obviously someone would have to really twist my arm :lol:
  • slowandsteady
    slowandsteady Posts: 339
    Watching the cycling on Eurosport these Cipolini bikes look like good pieces of kit. Will really need to look more into them.
    Wilier Cento Uno SR 2013 in Fluro Yellow
    Cannondale Caad10 2014 in BLACK!!
  • smoggysteve
    smoggysteve Posts: 2,909
    Slowandsteady wrote:
    Watching the cycling on Eurosport these Cipolini bikes look like good pieces of kit. Will really need to look more into them.

    were any if them Cipollini bikes going uphill? More than ever bloody did!!!
  • ju5t1n
    ju5t1n Posts: 2,028
    Gazzetta67 wrote:
    CAMPY ??????? Who the F**k calls it that apart from weirdo americans. Oh i have SHIMY & SRAMY on my other bikes too :evil:
    Campagnolo themselves do...

    http://www.campagnolo.com/jsp/en/techinfo/index.jsp
  • neeb
    neeb Posts: 4,473
    Yup, both my 10sp and 11sp Campagnolo chain tools actually have "CAMPY" engraved on them. This whole business of having to use the "campag" abbreviation in a U.K. context and "campy" in a U.S. context to avoid reactions such as the above really gets on my nerves. They're both perfectly reasonable abbreviations FFS and "campy" is marginally easier to type. And before someone points out that "campy" isn't strictly an abbreviation because there isn't a "Y" in Campagnolo... I don't care. Besides, the proper pronounciation of the "gn" in campagnolo is vaguely Y-like... :wink:
  • smidsy
    smidsy Posts: 5,273
    What I want to know is why is the word abbreviaton so long? :-)
    Yellow is the new Black.
  • roypsb
    roypsb Posts: 309
    Slowandsteady wrote:
    Watching the cycling on Eurosport these Cipolini bikes look like good pieces of kit. Will really need to look more into them.

    Agreed. Absolutely gorgeous.
  • skyblue337
    skyblue337 Posts: 135
    Wilier Zero7 or Scapin Etika RC as seen on the index page of their website
  • t4tomo
    t4tomo Posts: 2,643
    Bianchi, I bought one when no-one forced me too.

    To poster ^^^^upthere somewhere on about swedes and far east - most frames are made in the far east nowadays so get your head out of your backside.
    Bianchi Infinito CV
    Bianchi Via Nirone 7 Ultegra
    Brompton S Type
    Carrera Vengeance Ultimate Ltd
    Gary Fisher Aquila '98
    Front half of a Viking Saratoga Tandem
  • southdownswolf
    southdownswolf Posts: 1,525
    ju5t1n wrote:
    Gazzetta67 wrote:
    CAMPY ??????? Who the F**k calls it that apart from weirdo americans. Oh i have SHIMY & SRAMY on my other bikes too :evil:
    Campagnolo themselves do...

    http://www.campagnolo.com/jsp/en/techinfo/index.jsp


    :lol:

    must have been on the American version of the website
    http://www.stuartmole.co.uk/
  • zoltansocrates
    zoltansocrates Posts: 118
    ill call it what i fkn like gazzetta, and then when i have enough cash to afford a gruppo i too will get all 4rsey and insist its called by its proper name ;)
  • rodgers73
    rodgers73 Posts: 2,626
    I'd have weekend in Milan and buy myself a new Giant - does that count?
  • ilm_zero7
    ilm_zero7 Posts: 2,213
    the playing mantis wrote:
    if someone came along and forced you to choose a bike from an italian marque, what would you choose and why
    forced !!!! WTF... you mean 'lucky enough :) no contest
    http://veloviewer.com/SigImage.php?a=3370a&r=3&c=5&u=M&g=p&f=abcdefghij&z=a.png
    Wiliers: Cento Uno/Superleggera R and Zero 7. Bianchi Infinito CV and Oltre XR2
  • LegendLust
    LegendLust Posts: 1,022
    Ahem

    A great Review of a true, '100% made in Italy' Italian marque

    http://road.cc/content/review/78147-legend-ht-75
    Selling my Legend frame
    http://owningalegend.wordpress.com/2014 ... ced-price/

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