Steel Road Bikes

[pooks]

I'm pretty sure this is heresy but --

I don't care for the Bianchi celeste.

There now. I said it. (I do kind of like it on the one bike that they have kitted out with red tires and red accents, though.)

I would LOVE to come to Seattle. It's a place I've always wanted to visit. In fact, it's on our list of "possible places to retire," though I'm not sure how serious my husband is about that. But he's mentioned it before!

I love the Aurora. I will get a chance to ride it before I buy any other bike. I need to go back to that site and see if they have any dealers in Austin.

Road trip!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Road trip!

GO FOR IT!

[indysteel]

I'm pretty sure this is heresy but --

I don't care for the Bianchi celeste.

LOL. Pooks, the funny thing is, either do I, at least not the most "common" version of it. It reminds me of hospital scrubs. Thankfully, I like the bleached celeste though. IMO, it's a kinder, gentler version of the celeste that's used on the men's bike.

[pooks]

I like rich colors, not pastels. However, if I got a Bianchi, I might want the celeste just to feel authentic.

[mimitabby]

Pooks, I understand where you're coming from. My bianchi is not Celeste, and I think it does not look like a Bianchi to some because of it. you can spot a Celeste bianchi coming down the trail from a long ways. With my bike, the colors could be just about anything.
As I ride down the road sometimes when I see the Celeste colors I will greet the other riders "Hey Bianchi's!" I couldn't do that with those colored like my own, but that Bianchi Volpe with it's army green is another you can't mistake for another.

[SouthernBelle]

I like rich colors, not pastels. However, if I got a Bianchi, I might want the celeste just to feel authentic.

Have you seen the black and celeste Bianchi in Bicycling's buyer's guide. About equal amounts of each color, maybe even a little more black. It's beautemous.

[xeney]

My husband just got a brand new Vigorelli frame -- this one. It is so pretty that I can't stand it. He doesn't really like the color -- he'd rather have celeste -- but this was such a great deal that he grabbed it anyway. It is too big for me or I'd trade him for my celeste Veloce.

But I think celeste is prettier in person than in pictures. In person the pearlescent paint is pretty awesome ... in pictures it just looks like a flat aqua color.

[spazzdog]

I'm fond of "wacky" paintjobs... my specialized is the zebra scheme used by Cipollini when he rode for Acqua & Sapone.

I'm not sure what I'll do with the next bike I buy, should there ever be one. Maybe custom it from one of my own digital paintings.

spazz

[pooks]

That Vigorelli is sharp, Xeney. The yellow Giro I saw online is, too. (But it was a 2006 and they don't appear to have a 2007.)

Spazz, any pictures?

[Batbike]

hmmm ... steel bike, funky paint job (not girly), AND italian (thought I would add that since you are talking Bianchi) ... I would vote for:

Pegoretti Responsorium

http://www.competitivecyclist.com/za...RODUCT.ID=3668