Michelangelo, of course, gave us perfection in oil and stone, at least the closest thing to perfection that anyone had achieved to date. Giorgio Moroder, on the other hand...if you're still scratching your head: he's the guy that did the background music for Flashdance and Scarface. As a matter of fact, if you picked a movie made between 1980 and 1984, when a character was looking wistfully off in the distance, and one shot was dissolving into another, cheesy dramatic synthesizer music in the background...that cheesy music...THAT's Giorgio Moroder.
Where am I going with this? I've wanted an Italian racing bike since around the time Giorgio was doing lines off his Moog. Somewhere between Pasadena and Chicago, there's a Pinarello with my name on it: aluminum & carbon fiber frame, 1350 gram clinchers, 17 pounds, race-ready with a where-it-counts mix of 105 brakes to Campy carbon fiber rear derailleur.
...and it's got the ugliest paint job ever. It screams 1983. It's the anti-Colnago. Oh well, all the better to fly under the radar. Say hello to my little friend.
I'm gonna have to change the name of this blog.
1 comment:
Awesome! Can't wait to include more of you in the CBR round-up. And it appears this bike as only one speed as well: fast.
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