oh sick son, i cant wait to get my pair built up… i gotta wait about a month or so.
That fork the Cinelli uses is the same as the Pista Concept and the newer Merckx Pista use. I want to score one with no decals, anyone have an idea how they might be found?
Badass, awsome color scheme. No point of a paint job on a mash bike though, its just gonna get covered in stupid fucking stickers.
agreed
HAH… well, their logo is on the headbadge, so hopefully not
I don’t get the mash hate. The video is dope. The bike is dope. I’m wearing mash socks. All you haterz can suck my balls
those cranks are the hot shit.
i lost all respect for cinelli when i saw that a local bike shop had a “gallery” full of cinelli/street artist collabo bikes, with bullshit blurbs about each artist and what the bike represents. every blurb mentioned “messenger culture” or “bike scene.” and the displays were shit like a rusty old track bike with a worn saddle and no bar tape, a fucked up old mess bag, and some rusty old street signs behind it. then there was the bike painted entirely white (ALL OF IT) in a glass case.
fuck a bunch of that.
Cinelli must be loving how they were transformed from musty old Italian company who nobody cared about into some hot new urban bike brand without lifting a finger.
[quote=“jim”]i lost all respect for cinelli when i saw that a local bike shop had a “gallery” full of cinelli/street artist collabo bikes, with bullshit blurbs about each artist and what the bike represents. every blurb mentioned “messenger culture” or “bike scene.” and the displays were shit like a rusty old track bike with a worn saddle and no bar tape, a fucked up old mess bag, and some rusty old street signs behind it. then there was the bike painted entirely white (ALL OF IT) in a glass case.
fuck a bunch of that.[/quote]
I like that you don’t mention the shop you went to was Mellow Jonny’s (Lance Armstrong’s Bike shop.)
That would be a pretty nice reality to wake up to now, wouldn’t it.
One thing I havent heard is whether or not its the same geometry and everything as the Vigorelli.
If so, I cant see the point at all from a buyer’s standpoint.
I mean companies make bikes in different colors all the time. Same bikes as last year, but different colors.
So if that’s the case…where does the MASH collabo part come in? The idea to make it grey and black?
Cause that aint a fucking collabo.
That’s just different colors on the same graphics as the Vigorelli.
Isn’t that what most of the “collabos” are?
Why spend $70 on these Nikes when you can spend $600 on this same pair with some different colors and some graffiti dude’s name on the inside?
[quote=“crushkilldestroy”]Isn’t that what most of the “collabos” are?
Why spend $70 on these Nikes when you can spend $600 on this same pair with some different colors and some graffiti dude’s name on the inside?[/quote]
Some ‘graffiti dude’ is an artist and the work he does is typically unrelated to shoes whatsoever.
His life is about making art. The shoe, in this case, is his canvas.
Then again, they also sell friendship bracelets and bar ends designed around a lack of bar tape.
Sounds like they got their bases covered.
[quote=“shiftpgdn”][quote=“jim”]i lost all respect for cinelli when i saw that a local bike shop had a “gallery” full of cinelli/street artist collabo bikes, with bullshit blurbs about each artist and what the bike represents. every blurb mentioned “messenger culture” or “bike scene.” and the displays were shit like a rusty old track bike with a worn saddle and no bar tape, a fucked up old mess bag, and some rusty old street signs behind it. then there was the bike painted entirely white (ALL OF IT) in a glass case.
fuck a bunch of that.[/quote]
I like that you don’t mention the shop you went to was Mellow Jonny’s (Lance Armstrong’s Bike shop.)[/quote]
free beer, that is why Jim was there
[quote=“deathhare”]One thing I havent heard is whether or not its the same geometry and everything as the Vigorelli.
If so, I cant see the point at all from a buyer’s standpoint.
I mean companies make bikes in different colors all the time. Same bikes as last year, but different colors.
So if that’s the case…where does the MASH collabo part come in? The idea to make it grey and black?
Cause that aint a fucking collabo.
That’s just different colors on the same graphics as the Vigorelli.[/quote]
well, the forward sloping top tube and non-aero seattube make it visually different from the Vigorelli at the least.
[quote=“onelescar”][quote=“shiftpgdn”][quote=“jim”]i lost all respect for cinelli when i saw that a local bike shop had a “gallery” full of cinelli/street artist collabo bikes, with bullshit blurbs about each artist and what the bike represents. every blurb mentioned “messenger culture” or “bike scene.” and the displays were shit like a rusty old track bike with a worn saddle and no bar tape, a fucked up old mess bag, and some rusty old street signs behind it. then there was the bike painted entirely white (ALL OF IT) in a glass case.
fuck a bunch of that.[/quote]
I like that you don’t mention the shop you went to was Mellow Jonny’s (Lance Armstrong’s Bike shop.)[/quote]
free beer, that is why Jim was there[/quote]
oddly enough, i never even heard anything about it. i was in there getting tubes before work one night and saw it. i sure as shit would have gone for the free beer though. those are magical words.
well them putting my rims on their bike was good for my company. so i’m thankful for that.
According to mike martin of mash their frame has a diff geometry than the vigorelli.
Also the interbike frame was just a prototype, they are going to go back and tighten the clearance of down tube and front wheel.
About cinelli, didn’t they start doing these artist collaborations long time ago? the keith haring and cinelli bike?
Thanks for the infoz.
I guess we know it is different geometry then.
Under those circumstances I def have a lot more respect for the collaboration then.
Although MASH still sucks.