View Full Version : quick Colnago advice needed.


elviento
10-30-2005, 04:47 PM
Is it a YES or a NO to put a Colnago fork with yellow letters on a 04 PR10 frame?

Below are a picture of the PR10 colors. I am leaning towards buying it but want to check with my knowledgeable and aesthetically accomplished fellow RBRers. Thanks!

<img src=http://images.competitivecyclist.com/dyn_docs/5954-ct2z.jpg>
<img src=http://www.bikesportmichigan.com/reviews/colnago/forceforklg.jpg>

elviento
10-30-2005, 04:52 PM
Thoughts?

6was9
10-30-2005, 05:50 PM
Thoughts?That looks odd.

Unless you have, at least hint of, yellow (or even orange if you must) I say NO.

Zampano
10-30-2005, 06:32 PM
Does not the fact that you asked confirm your own suspicions?

meccio
10-30-2005, 11:12 PM
I can see some yellow on your ksyrium. But you can only use your new forks with those wheels.

6was9
10-30-2005, 11:41 PM
I can see some yellow on your ksyrium. But you can only use your new forks with those wheels.
I believe that pic is from Competitive Cyclist site... though the Carbones might be his...

I think he's asking whether that frame color scheme goes with his yellow lettering Force fork.

triadrider
10-31-2005, 04:29 AM
You could do better.

ballmon
10-31-2005, 06:50 AM
NONONO

elviento
10-31-2005, 07:54 AM
okay, okay. I will not do it then. Thanks for the input. The Carbones aren't mine... wish they were, though.

campagnoloneutron
10-31-2005, 05:44 PM
For sure NO.
From an artistic and an aesthetic point of view NO, as there is no tie-in to the rest of the frame color/paint scheme. So NO, it just does not look like it belongs with this paint color scheme, yellow lettering on the forks makes it look like an after thought add-on part. Besides Uncle Ernesto might get upset and excommunicate you.
:)

rodist
11-01-2005, 03:26 AM
Add yellow bar tape and the yellow flight saddle and the black and yellow pro race 2's and you have a complete catastrophe.

Bonked
11-01-2005, 11:54 AM
my vote is for no as well...but whatever floats YOUR boat.

ps - thumbs up on the photoshop work!

Bocephus Jones II
11-01-2005, 12:21 PM
my vote is for no as well...but whatever floats YOUR boat.

ps - thumbs up on the photoshop work!
you guys are all nuts...if you can get a good deal on the fork buy it. And that's coming from a yellow fork on an otherwise non-yellow Colnago owner. At the time I didn't even know I had a color option. No big deal to me in any event. I think it looks fine.

6was9
11-01-2005, 12:45 PM
If you don't mind it then there ya go... I have to say yours look better than the blue PR scheme. But don't ya think a white lettered fork would look much better?

In fact I got a yellow lettered fork as well with my LX23 Rabobank MxL, which was my first Colnago. I didn't know I had the option either as I bought it built from LBS... ( that's one of the reason I build my own bikes now) My frame color scheme have bits of yellow and some orange yet the lettering on the frame is all black & white...although mine looks okay I still want a white letter fork for it as now I have 4 nags and the other three seem more complete/ together... but YMMV...

Bocephus Jones II
11-01-2005, 01:22 PM
If you don't mind it then there ya go... I have to say yours look better than the blue PR scheme. But don't ya think a white lettered fork would look much better?

In fact I got a yellow lettered fork as well with my LX23 Rabobank MxL, which was my first Colnago. I didn't know I had the option either as I bought it built from LBS... ( that's one of the reason I build my own bikes now) My frame color scheme have bits of yellow and some orange yet the lettering on the frame is all black & white...although mine looks okay I still want a white letter fork for it as now I have 4 nags and the other three seem more complete/ together... but YMMV...
Yeah...if they would have told me I had a choice I would have picked the white lettering most likely.

Zampano
11-01-2005, 03:43 PM
Yeah...if they would have told me I had a choice I would have picked the white lettering most likely.

The tire side walls are what's saving you.