Colnago CT1 and CT2 and Eddy Merckx Team SC thoughts?

[MoparPorsche]

Originally Posted by Tickdoc

Ct1 owner here and I love mine. It’s hard to describe the ride....comfy but precise...it is the best handling bike I own. Swapped the bb for a Phil wood and it is indescribably smooth. Mine has old record 10 that is also just smooth like butter.

I’ve never noticed joint separation so maybe I got a good one?

That paint is peeling horribly, and it’s age is showing, but I still ride it regularly and just love it, warts and all.

I go back and forth between having it repainted/ restored but I really enjoy the rat rod look it has.

Good luck with your search. I can’t speak for the Merckx or the ct2, but a ct1 I can endorse.

Man ole man, this is the same color scheme of the C40 I sold. Nice, I am glad to hear good reviews of the CT1 because it appears this will be the one I will have the best chance of finding.

[MoparPorsche]

Originally Posted by wallymann

man...i'd love to get my mitts on an HP-stay CT2...

Walter nice stable you have there!

[efuentes]

I have a CT1 Mapei, that I should sell but just can´t, nice smooth bike.

[MoparPorsche]

Originally Posted by efuentes

I have a CT1 Mapei, that I should sell but just can´t, nice smooth bike.

Yes, you can. What size is it?

[Polyglot]

The CT-1 and CT-2 were both honest frames. They were not made in Cambiago. Colnago did have some quality control issues with the supplier, in particular with the head tubes but they were all resolved in a quaint Colnago manner before delivery (the supplier had used an incorrectly sized head tube resulting in an impossibility of installing any headset, Colnago's solution was to have special headsets produced to fit the tube size. A perfectly fine solution for the initial installation but don't ask to find one of those headsets today!) There were no problems with bonding between the titanium and the carbon that I can remember.

[rallizes]

Originally Posted by MoparPorsche

Yes, you can. What size is it?

https://forums.thepaceline.net/showt...ei#post1762410

perhaps this is the one being referenced

[MoparPorsche]

Originally Posted by rallizes

https://forums.thepaceline.net/showt...ei#post1762410

perhaps this is the one being referenced

Nice color, too small for me.

[makoti]

I had a CT-1. I can't say I ever grew to love that bike. It did everything fine, but just never loved it. I ended up getting it sliced to use as a travel bike, and strangely, I thought it handled & rode BETTER after the retrofit. No explanation.

[lhuerta]

I had two CT-1 frames and I broke two CT-1 frames (I only weigh 156#) ...see discussion on same topic here:

https://www.velocipedesalon.com/foru...ct1-51402.html

[colker]

Originally Posted by makoti

I had a CT-1. I can't say I ever grew to love that bike. It did everything fine, but just never loved it. I ended up getting it sliced to use as a travel bike, and strangely, I thought it handled & rode BETTER after the retrofit. No explanation.

Post of the month.

[MoparPorsche]

In my search I stumbled across Colnago Master Carbon, interesting. It has rear stays similar to my EPS.

[galgal]

Originally Posted by MoparPorsche

In my search I stumbled across Colnago Master Carbon, interesting. It has rear stays similar to my EPS.

You will probably know this already, but Brian Palmer at washingmachinepost has an old review of the Colnago Master Carbon

[wallymann]

Originally Posted by Polyglot

The CT-1 and CT-2 were both honest frames. They were not made in Cambiago.

i believe many colnago TI were made by wittson

[MoparPorsche]

Originally Posted by galgal

You will probably know this already, but Brian Palmer at washingmachinepost has an old review of the Colnago Master Carbon

Actually was reading today.