Price Paid:
$350.00
at Geoffrey Butler Cycles Favorite Ride:
Hills branching off of rte. 30 North of Portland: take your pick Bike Setup:
Shimano 105, plenty of quality for a physically strong 40-something amateur. Wheels are 105 for sew-ups, 105 for clinchers, and the new Shimano 105 aero wheels. Summary:
Think about ordering your next frame from a European maker who offers quality tubing and a steel fork. You'll get plenty of lightness and more importantly you'll get structural dependability. Also, you'll have a classy ride. It's up to you to decide if that's something you deserve.
But jump on what you want! The bike market is changing stylistically too fast these days. Strengths:
This is a stiff, responsive frame. Quite high bottom bracket for an Italian frame. Confidence-inspiring Cinelli drop-outs. An aluminum frame (Aluthron: light but not TOO light) and a steel fork; again, solid and reassuring.
I am 180 lbs and ruin equipment, breaking front and rear spokes with regularity, snapping rear-derailleur drop-outs on aluminum frames, etc. This frame can take it. I have three sets of wheels for different uses and the frame indeed can time-trial, sprint, climb, and corner.
Now, can someone explain why they discontinued it!
Of course Cinelli has followed the vanguard of Slanted top-tubes, a frame that I will not touch for a number of aesthetic and mass-oriented reasons deriving from the issue of torque. That is, I ride from my rear-end and want no more seatpost showing than is necessary.
A terrific classy looking frame. I get people freaking out on this baby, the likes of which are nowhere in sight in these parts. Weaknesses:
None. A brilliant frame which confers ample benefits upon its owner. Similar Products Used:
Kinesis Road Frame; Trek Road Frame; Bottecchia Road Frame; GT Road Frame
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