Cicli Dodici

Cicli Dodici opened up an actual shop awhile back. I know were a little late to jump on this but I think its interesting because we've dealt with them before, not as Cicli Dodici, but as Vintage Pista. Anyway, since we last wrote about them awhile back they've started making their own house branded track frames, which all look pretty high quality.

This is the Gara, welded Aluminum frame & Carbon fork. €400.00


The Veloce, lugged not welded, made of Columbus Zona. €500.00


The Leggero, welded, made of Columbus Spirit. €650.00


Finally, the Super! welded, made of Columbus XRc -- Columbus' Stainless Steel tubeset, which was introduced relatively recently and has numerous advantages over traditional steel tubing -- lighter, stronger, more corrosion resistant, etc... Hence the €1200.00 pricetag.


And also, as usual, these guys have a grip of Vintage & NOS parts.




Cicli D Website/Blog & Flickr

Colnago Mountain Bike?

Spotted this unusual/rare bike on eBay a few weeks back, a Colnago Master "Ibex."

You don't see the Italians messing with Mountain bikes, it was sort of an experimental market that they clearly lost to the Americans & Japanese. Kind of like Cinelli's experiment with BMX.

This bike is pretty amazing, you see elegant touches like this custom stem

Campagnolo 1060 dropouts

Colnago's own Arabesque style lugged seatpost collar.

Columbus-Gilco crimped tubing

Custom matching Selle-Colnago Saddle

Colnago Handlebars with Ernesto's Signature by the stem clamp

Only thing that seems off about this bike is the groupset, its Shimano. First thing I'd think of a Colnago mountain bike is that it'd be built with one of Campy's ultra-rare Mountain Bike gruppos, like Euclid, rather than Shimano XT.

Ernesto Colnago has been quoted as saying "I remember one time I was invited to a conference on production quality and quantity. There was a bunch of Japanese, and I told them they were only good at copying. One of them answered, 'Yes, that is true, but we copy to make better.' He introduced himself and it was Shimano himself! ... Today I use Shimano and Campagnolo on my bikes, 50 percent, according to the suitability. The average bike I have made in Taiwan, but I have that written on it, unlike a lot of others, and I use Shimano because it costs less."
Apparently no one thought it was worth the $2,200 that the seller was asking, it ended without a bid.

Hella Pimp Colnago Pursuit

made of super-sick gilco/columbus crimped tubing.
ebay

Got a package in the mail today

Columbus PS
Any local framebuilders interested in a project?

Colnago Superissimo Pista

I have the road version of this frame, its sick.
ebay