Steel Road Bikes

[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

[pooks]

Now that is truly a funky paint job!