L29205 said:
Beautiful bike, almost as nice as my steel DeRosa or Rossin. I feel sorrow for the demise of the artisan frame builders due to the rise of CAD and Carbon Fiber. I am also a hypocrite in that I also own a Cervelo P3C and a couple of Kestrels. But nothing is as smooth as Italian steel.
Demise-"death: the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes".
NOT dead, just much smaller. Cinelli, DeRosa, Tomassini, Milano/Masi, Mondonico/Torelli, Colnago all are Euro steel makers. PLUS a bunch in the US.
Waterford, Independent Fab, Vanilla, Sachs, SoulCraft, many others.
My personal choice, BTW-stainless steel Waterford.