I used to quite fancy a Bianchi Pista, but I saw one at the station last night and I've really gone off them. It's the first time I've seen one close up and it just looked more wrong the more I looked at it.
It's supposed to look retro, but it just looks cheap. I'm not sure exactly what period they're aiming at, but I wouldn't consider deep section rims retro. The aheadset and stem looks wrong too, but the worst part of the whole bike for me was the fork. Close up it looks like the fork from a bargain basement rigid MTB minus the brake bosses, in fact that's probably exactly what it is. They probably raided the parts bin and came up with those.
I tried to order one a couple of years ago but they'd sold out everywhere. Why do they sell out of these things every year?
Anyway I'm going to build something properly retro, right down to some moustache bars or similar and old fashioned wheel size (maybe a 26x1 1/4"). And painted black, natch.
It's supposed to look retro, but it just looks cheap. I'm not sure exactly what period they're aiming at, but I wouldn't consider deep section rims retro. The aheadset and stem looks wrong too, but the worst part of the whole bike for me was the fork. Close up it looks like the fork from a bargain basement rigid MTB minus the brake bosses, in fact that's probably exactly what it is. They probably raided the parts bin and came up with those.
I tried to order one a couple of years ago but they'd sold out everywhere. Why do they sell out of these things every year?
Anyway I'm going to build something properly retro, right down to some moustache bars or similar and old fashioned wheel size (maybe a 26x1 1/4"). And painted black, natch.
