playing with fire: Mondonico, Pegoretti

[roguedog]

mimi - there's also elliot bay cycles near you. they build custom frames and i'm pretty sure they'd build up your bike near you. they seem like a decent shop. they are one of the few carriers for rivendell, anyway.

http://www.elliottbaybicycles.com/direction.html


maybe you already have seen one in person, but looks like alki bike and board carries mondonico's in your area if you just wanna look and see and maybe ride one. course it prob won't be the same one but it's something to touch..

http://alkibikeandboard.com/bikes.htm

ps.. we are all very naughty, wicked people...

[Bad JuJu]

Mimi, it really sounds like the Mondonico is everything you've been looking for--and I share your love of the classic lugged steel frame. I just wonder whether there's some way you can be sure it'll be the right fit for you. I mean, I know you had a professional fitting (didn't you?), but you can't test-ride a fitting, or a frame. Jeez, I hate to rain on your parade, but, well, I'm just thinking of things that would concern me, were I in your (cycling) shoes.

[mimitabby]

mimi - there's also elliot bay cycles near you. they build custom frames and i'm pretty sure they'd build up your bike near you. they seem like a decent shop. they are one of the few carriers for rivendell, anyway.

http://www.elliottbaybicycles.com/direction.html


maybe you already have seen one in person, but looks like alki bike and board carries mondonico's in your area if you just wanna look and see and maybe ride one. course it prob won't be the same one but it's something to touch..

http://alkibikeandboard.com/bikes.htm

ps.. we are all very naughty, wicked people...

You certainly are all very naughty wicked people.
Elliott Bay is the LBS who are building my husband's bike RIGHT AS WE SPEAK! They are campy experts, so it is very likely that i will take my frame to them... If i get it.
You are SOOOOO helpful, let me tell you.
and thanks for the info about Alkibike and board, I'll have to go by there if this weather ever comes to its senses.

[mimitabby]

I bought the frame and the fork

[DebW]

Congratulations! We're proud of you, Mimi, for bringing a new addition to our family of bikes and riders. We know you and the Mondonico will be very happy together.

[mimitabby]

Do you know, i might get this before my husband gets HIS BIKE?!?!?
(That he ordered in 0ctober?!??!)

[Trek420]

I bought the frame and the fork

Belisima!! (sp?) Wool, Italian Steel....resistance is futile

[emily_in_nc]

Awesome, Mimi - congratulations! Did you get the purple? Or orange? Either will be gorgeous. You'll have to let us know how you decide to build it up, and of course you'll post many pictures when you get it.

Very exciting!

Emily

[mimitabby]

Orange, Emily; Pearly Orange

When I figured out that to get an Italian frame and fork cost less than to get a local guy to do it, (and he was going to have co-motion make the frame),
I decided that this was a deal I didn't want to pass up.

[Trek420]

Is that the Molteni orange I see?