I don't know if you all saw Peter Gilbert's beautiful Moretti at Cirque this weekend, with those nifty pantographed parts and painted that lovely shade of blue, but oh, wow, what a bicycle. That was kind of the epitome of Italian road bike to me.
I pretty much decided right there and then, that whatever blue Peter had - I wanted that color for my Monte, (that bare frame of mine hanging from a park repair stand in the Italian section). So today on my lunch, I called Joe up to find out exactly what mysterious mix of paint he used to come up with that sublime shade of blue. Imagine my surprise that it was Imron Sierra Blue, the EXACT shade I'd picked from a color chart. No wonder I liked it so much.
I think we need a Monte section at Cirque 04...
It was really hard to sell plain jane aluminum bicycles at work today with visions of Aldo's Bianchi dancing in my head.
Ann Phillips, Atlanta GA I went to bicycle heaven for 3 days and then I had to go home