Colnago Cross Prestige

[Foghat]

Had this frame for some years: now finally built up!

Will be using more for trail/track riding, with reasonable capability of fast (cf. mountain bike) progress on roads to/from/intervening in the areas of off-road interest, rather than 'cyclocross'; hence the tyre choice, which aren't traditional cyclocross tyres.

Apart from some initial horrendous front-brake judder (cured by increasing toe-in of the Shimano CX70 cantilever brake shoes), it seems to ride and handle exceptionally well.

I've handbuilt the wheels to be hopefully nice and strong, for the pounding they will no doubt get: Mavic A719 rims with 32/36 spokes front/rear.

Should open up a lot more interesting explorations of the countryside!

 

[Foghat]

 

[pplpilot]

phwoar

 

[derrick]

How can you have such a nice frame sitting around so long, i would have built it up a lot sooner, really nice looking bike.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Very bike - I like that a lot.

Not keen on the saddle with that ugly bit at the front - sorry!

These would look nice (and would work better than those canti's) on her:

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/trp/cx9-linear-pull-cyclocross-brakes-set-ec037710

Terrific brakes plus I wish I had red instead of black!

 

[simon.r]

What's the red 'anti-chain falling off and mangling the frame' thing called please? I tried to fit a dog fang to my frame, but the odd shaped seat tube wouldn't allow me to. Something like you've fitted would work I think. Thanks,

 

[StuAff]

What's the red 'anti-chain falling off and mangling the frame' thing called please? I tried to fit a dog fang to my frame, but the odd shaped seat tube wouldn't allow me to. Something like you've fitted would work I think. Thanks,

That's a K-Edge chain catcher, as sold by Wiggle (equivalent products sold by several manufacturers).

 

[StuAff]

Fab frame, fab build.

 

[VamP]

Nice build, only marred by the horrendous tyres. And get a spirit level on your saddle.

Real shame if that frame never sees a race though.

 

[Venod]

Nice bike, I too have just built a cross bike for the very purpose you intend to use yours for its great to be going along and spot a bridleway and head down it, the only difference is I use Schwalbe marathon plus tyres, 30mm they have been fine so far but the ground has been fairly hard recently, probably useless in the mud, they have the added advantage of been easier on the road, I have just done a 60 mile charity ride on them complete with mudguards and averaged 18 + mph easily keeping up with guys on pure race bikes with 23mmm slicks.

 

[Pottsy]

Like it a lot. Great fast but still go almost anywhere bike, which makes for really fun days out exploring.

 

[Foghat]

How can you have such a nice frame sitting around so long, i would have built it up a lot sooner, really nice looking bike.

Thanks.

Not having the time to build it, until recently, mainly. And I don't trust anyone to build my bikes other than me!

 

[Foghat]

Very bike - I like that a lot.

Not keen on the saddle with that ugly bit at the front - sorry!

These would look nice (and would work better than those canti's) on her:

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/trp/cx9-linear-pull-cyclocross-brakes-set-ec037710

Terrific brakes plus I wish I had red instead of black!

No need to apologise - once you find a saddle that fits, you tend to stick with it, and I quite like the look anyway....

The CX70 brakes with Dura Ace 9000 levers are very powerful and smooth with a great action - they look good too. How would your TRP CX9s improve on them? Do they work well with with road STI levers?

I mentioned the initial severe judder of the front CX70 cantilever brake, which was cured by increasing the toe-in of the brake pads - it occurs to me that as the brake pads wear, the effective toe-in will decrease, presumably resulting in a gradual return to judder and necessitating further toe-in adjustments (which will no doubt be limited by the extent of the dome shape on the brake shoe washers). One other contributory factor in cantilever brake judder can be a large distance from the straddle wire to the outer cable stop, as seen with headset-spacer-located cable stops (cf. fork-crown-located). It seems quite possible that those linear-pull TRP brakes would do away with that whole aspect of judder cause - have you found them judder-free?

 

[Foghat]

What's the red 'anti-chain falling off and mangling the frame' thing called please? I tried to fit a dog fang to my frame, but the odd shaped seat tube wouldn't allow me to. Something like you've fitted would work I think. Thanks,

As StuAff says - K-Edge.

Probably don't really need it with 11sp Dura Ace 9000, as the front derailleur shifts down only to the inner-ring trim point rather than the inner-ring low-limit point (you have to push the lever again to move it to the low-limit point), meaning overshifts are much more unlikely than earlier designs. Still, better to be safe than sorry with expensive carbon-fibre frames!

 

[Foghat]

Fab frame, fab build.

Thanks!