Bianchi upgrade!

[Gunk]

Never mind about all this Bianchi Beau Larques, what’s happening with the bloody Brompton?

I was going to ask the same question

 

[JhnBssll]

Hahaha I'll post an Brompdate later, but no big change

 

[jowwy]

The most expensive carbon machinery money can buy will never come near the aesthetic qualities of a nicely painted vintage steel frame. They aren't in the same league. Matt blacks & greys look particularly uninspiring, I think of them as unfinished primer coats,TBH

In your eyes maybe, but not in everybody’s.......just remember that

 

[Shearwater Missile]

Whilst my current Oltre XR3 disc has only done 1700 miles from new last year I recently found myself in a position to be able to swap the frameset for that of an Oltre XR4 disc for minimal outlay using the cycle to work scheme. With kids on the horizon and a potential house move brewing the situation was unlikely to come around again in the foreseeable future so I've grabbed it with both hands and wrestled it to the floor

I've discussed it at length with the lbs, filled in the forms and am now awaiting approval from work - in the meantime I have a difficult decision to make regarding colourschemes I'll be going for a Tavolozza frameset where you get to configure the colours from some presets. There are a few thousand possible combinations but a lot of the colours are pretty grim and easy to rule out My current XR3 disc is graphite with fluro celeste detailing and a matt finish which I really like so I'll probably aim for something similar. I'll be transferring the orange Hope brakes and other bits and pieces over on to the new frameset so I can't have anything too clashy Here's the XR3:

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So for the XR4 I'm thinking of swapping the colours around and using graphite as the detail colour, and also swapping the fluro celeste for the classic celeste...

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I've got a little while to decide but the situation reminds me a bit of when we first got Sky TV - we didn't know what to watch because the choice was too big I am however sure that I'm not keen on the two standard colour options as they're both a gloss finish. Which is a shame, as that would have saved me some money

Exciting times!

You would think that matt would be cheaper as it is like an undercoat, albeit harder wearing perhaps, without a top layer of laquer. Very nice bike though, I`ll keep a lookout for it in my neck of the woods. I bet you can`t wait.

 

[JhnBssll]

I stripped my XR3 down today and took the frameset over to my lbs for them to find it a new loving home I now have a pair of wheels and a box of bits where it used to sit in the garage

Pretty excited about getting the XR4 through now