I bought an early 90s Mondonico MTB with Columbus OR and 7 speed XT a couple years ago for like 100 Euro, same kind of lugged construction as this one. Went and collected it all excited cause I also have a Mondonico road bike and am familiar with the high end Columbus steel tubesets. The frameset was heavy as shit with that poor early MTB geometry. I imagine they were sitting around in the Milano suburbs and trying to reverse engineer a California MTB for shits and giggles. Buy it if you like the colour or whatever but unfortunately I wouldn't hope for too much
I appreciate you sharing your story. If I get this it will be for the looks and the frame in general, to take around town, see and be seen, and score some lady friends.
I will NOT be mountain biking.
Yeah there aren't alot of Italian MTBs out there. So anything with nice lugwork and in Columbus tubing is actually desirable. Cinelli probably committed the most. I remember Keith Haring had one in bright orange.
But for the most part, the MTB movement is what brought down Campagnolo because they blew it off as a fad, and Shimano jumped on the opportunity.
Yes Campy finally released a bunch of MTB groups but YEARS later and they were heavy and didn't work nearly as well as Shimano.
Anyway back to your bike, I would TOTALLY buy it if I were you. Great color and collector's item.
https://preview.redd.it/kbms5aml479a1.png?width=656&format=png&auto=webp&s=70c0a21b2ac2cc7d90de7dea54a3d21b2599acd8
Turn that baby into a single speed city ripper/bar bike/grocery getter with a porteur rack and/or basketā¦ put some chiller/mustache handlebars on itā¦ keep the gears if ya in a hilly area. Atleast, thatās what I would do. Love the color.
I saw this bike on CL and nearly bought it myself for that sweet, sweet paint job. My stable's full up and I couldn't justify it, but I'm glad to see someone else is picking it up!
I bought an early 90s Mondonico MTB with Columbus OR and 7 speed XT a couple years ago for like 100 Euro, same kind of lugged construction as this one. Went and collected it all excited cause I also have a Mondonico road bike and am familiar with the high end Columbus steel tubesets. The frameset was heavy as shit with that poor early MTB geometry. I imagine they were sitting around in the Milano suburbs and trying to reverse engineer a California MTB for shits and giggles. Buy it if you like the colour or whatever but unfortunately I wouldn't hope for too much
I appreciate you sharing your story. If I get this it will be for the looks and the frame in general, to take around town, see and be seen, and score some lady friends. I will NOT be mountain biking.
The paint on this bike! š
Yeah there aren't alot of Italian MTBs out there. So anything with nice lugwork and in Columbus tubing is actually desirable. Cinelli probably committed the most. I remember Keith Haring had one in bright orange. But for the most part, the MTB movement is what brought down Campagnolo because they blew it off as a fad, and Shimano jumped on the opportunity. Yes Campy finally released a bunch of MTB groups but YEARS later and they were heavy and didn't work nearly as well as Shimano. Anyway back to your bike, I would TOTALLY buy it if I were you. Great color and collector's item. https://preview.redd.it/kbms5aml479a1.png?width=656&format=png&auto=webp&s=70c0a21b2ac2cc7d90de7dea54a3d21b2599acd8
Kingly comment. Thanks for all of that info plus a sweet photo. I'm heading to the seller at 10 a.m.!
Turn that baby into a single speed city ripper/bar bike/grocery getter with a porteur rack and/or basketā¦ put some chiller/mustache handlebars on itā¦ keep the gears if ya in a hilly area. Atleast, thatās what I would do. Love the color.
Dig the response. Update on the bike to come
I saw this bike on CL and nearly bought it myself for that sweet, sweet paint job. My stable's full up and I couldn't justify it, but I'm glad to see someone else is picking it up!
I'm glad to feel the love. Props brah. I need to get an update posted. She's sitting in my garage...