italian marques
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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..0 -
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.0 -
Thread/the deeper the section the deeper the pleasure.0 -
Too many of these Italian bikes are cluttered logo-fests these days. Less shouty graphics and more flair and elegance please.0
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I'd rather walk than buy anything from an Italian.0
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the deeper the section the deeper the pleasure.0
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pride4ever wrote:
Just personal prejudice. My experience of both Italians and Italian engineering is not good at all.0 -
Yellow is the new Black.0
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Looks a lot better colour scheme than the Basso Astra's with the ugly B motif on the side of head tube.0
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Wilier0
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De rosa cos I've never seen one out before0
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thescouselander wrote:pride4ever wrote:
Just personal prejudice. My experience of both Italians and Italian engineering is not good at all.the deeper the section the deeper the pleasure.0 -
Of course he has, he lives in Liverpool. Oh is that a bit prejudice? :-)Yellow is the new Black.0
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Fevmeister wrote:De rosa cos I've never seen one out before0
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giant man wrote:Fevmeister wrote:De rosa cos I've never seen one out before
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!0 -
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.0
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Legend 10.5 (previously would have been a hand built Viner) with SR but obviously someone would have to really twist my arm0
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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!!0 -
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!!!0 -
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:
http://www.campagnolo.com/jsp/en/techinfo/index.jsp0 -
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...0
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What I want to know is why is the word abbreviaton so long? :-)Yellow is the new Black.0
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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.0 -
Wilier Zero7 or Scapin Etika RC as seen on the index page of their website0
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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 Tandem0 -
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:
http://www.campagnolo.com/jsp/en/techinfo/index.jsp
must have been on the American version of the website0 -
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 name0
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I'd have weekend in Milan and buy myself a new Giant - does that count?0
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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
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 XR20 -
Ahem
A great Review of a true, '100% made in Italy' Italian marque
http://road.cc/content/review/78147-legend-ht-75Selling my Legend frame
http://owningalegend.wordpress.com/2014 ... ced-price/0