Snow's melted and Heather's bike is complete but as yet unridden. This Mondonico is around 7-8 years old now but of course looks wonderful with its fresh red paint-job and new wheels. Heather wanted the same parts she's ridden with in Italy since Antonio and Mauro Mondonico along with Torelli's "Chairman Bill" McGann so kindly provided bikes to us. Yours truly purchased another later and we commissioned Mondonico/Torelli to include two bikes for us when the 20th Anniversary Torelli bikes were created - which now reside in Italy. My bike like this one is at painter Jim Allen's CycleSmiths shop now, photos of that one when it arrives.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Eye Candy Completed
Snow's melted and Heather's bike is complete but as yet unridden. This Mondonico is around 7-8 years old now but of course looks wonderful with its fresh red paint-job and new wheels. Heather wanted the same parts she's ridden with in Italy since Antonio and Mauro Mondonico along with Torelli's "Chairman Bill" McGann so kindly provided bikes to us. Yours truly purchased another later and we commissioned Mondonico/Torelli to include two bikes for us when the 20th Anniversary Torelli bikes were created - which now reside in Italy. My bike like this one is at painter Jim Allen's CycleSmiths shop now, photos of that one when it arrives.
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Pretty machine Larry - well done... Could you have found an uglier backdrop for it?
ReplyDeleteLooks like a prison backdrop I admit. I wheeled the bike out of the shop to the driveway, leaning it against the cinder-block retaining wall for a quick photo before returning to the warmth of the shop. It was COLD out there!
ReplyDeleteA lovely bicycle, and I am sure it rides as good as it looks. Needs to be photographed with an Italian backdrop, I think.
ReplyDeleteFunny thing that...when we're in Italy we seem too busy riding, eating and drinking to get any great shots of the bicycles! This one spent most of its life in Italy. Any photos on the website you see of Heather riding an orange Mondonico are of this one in its original Mondonico "Team" color which they called aranciata.
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