A friends new toy, custom paint on seatpost and Cinelli Ram bars

The BMC Lamborghini collaboration…

not really my thing, this was more interesting, a BMC  “Time Machine”

brake housing …

The  thing I find off putting about the BMC’s with naked carbon is you see all the

carbon patched together, especially on the top tube, now you wouldn’t find that on my C50 .

2013  Colnago M10s…

the 2013 Colnago C59 Italia..

the colour scheme on this seems to pay homage to the lugging of the Arabesque

new headtube decal/logo as well

a new Colnago/Ferrari  collaboration…

and the Colnago Wold Cup CX,

Look with a stunning head tube…

I just had to turn it…

Cinelli were present also, with a new twist on the legendary Laser

De Rosa, with some interesting contemporary  steel frames

And Somec…

Good to see some proper steel bikes still being made available.

what’s your flavor?

I saw this on a stall at L’Anjou,

the vendors own bike

he was French, and me being a simpleton and not understanding much,

the best I could get was he said it was “Artisan, from Paris”

I assume the brand is ‘Laetitia”

I manged to find my own Colnago Nuovo Mexico

(full pantographia) some good company

a Colnago Arabesque

and an exquisite early Master Olympic, with panto’d

Colnago Campagnolo Cobalto Calipers

(try saying that after 3 pints of Guiness)

I was out on one of my bike scouting missions today.

I ended up in the middle of nowhere (it seemed), , in the rain, waiting at a bus stop.

I’d past a bike shop on the way, so I walked back to get in out of the rain whilst waiting for my next ride.

I walked in and saw this

a circa ’85 Colnago Super in Saronni Red

The Gentleman told me he did the 1985 Tour De France on it.

Stunning!

I walked to the back of the shop, and saw this

the Gentleman said he did a tour on this.

He told me he kept asking Eddy Merckx for a bike, and

eventually,

Eddy gave him this

Eddy won on it in 1976

I’d never seen this before either

The frameset is a De Rosa

The Gentleman also showed me these

The pictures are poor,

I was in a rush,and punch-drunk at what I’d witnessed, and didn’t want to cause a fuss,

but I’ll compose my self and hopefully the Gentleman will allow me to take some more/better shots.

Forest Gump  was right about the chocolates though.