Inevitable I guess…
CHEAP AND NASTY!!!
I taste spew in my mouth
sweet colourway bro
Pinarello just threw their cred down the toilet. This is worse than that felt that had the matching saddle and top tube pad.
Ironically they are probably made in the same Taiwanese factory lol…
edit that’s not ironic is it? I always fuck up the correct usage!
Dope man, totes want one
Ewwww.
Why not stick to these… dildo tt bars ftw!
they motherF__king had to.
dead set it was inevitable.
soon well have colnago fixies…
We already do…
And it’s crap.
Who did they aim that purple, yellow and orange tartan thing at? There aren’t too many drunken, colour blind, Scottish hipsters around. ?!?!
Try telling that to Wheelworks!
To be fair SB, the Colnago is really nice in comparison. Mr Wheelworks has one! Nice lugged frame- not this aluminium welded piece of crap. I hope Pinarello used Columbus Airplane tubing at least…
oh god
guess i missed something there
God Competitive Cyclist spin some crap:
2010 Pinarello Lungavita - Competitive Cyclist
The advent of fixie culture pre-dates the current urban fashion of riding them by such a long way that the origins of the basic idea are unknown and undocumented. What we know, we’ve taken from the thought leaders such as the well-known Bike Snob NYC and the less-known but equally important Trackosaurus Rex. What is that basic idea? It’s not what it seems – let’s ride in traffic with no brakes and with limited ability to stop the crankset from turning. Rather, not unlike acoustic sets and restaurants keen on serving only what they grow, our best guess is that it’s an embrace of simplicity in an ever-noisier , evermore needlessly overwrought world. No gears? That cures 75% of a bike’s maintenance woes. No brakes? We appreciate the aesthetic simplicity brought on by the elimination of the rest of the cables. The resulting irony, of course, is that a bike stripped down to its essential moving parts – brainless to maintain, joyful to accessorize, minimally appealing to steal – becomes the ultimate urban weapon for battling the nemesis of the true urban dweller: those dreadful cars.
Have you ever ridden a fixie before? If not, it’s a bit of a shocker how your natural inclination to freewheel can jack you up rodeo-style over the bars. The first few times it happens it’s pretty terrifying and terror, of course, is the best disciplinarian so you learn super-fast to stop indulging the freewheel instinct. We’ll admit, though, that our riding time is precious (we’re in that kids + job phase of life) and rather than master new skills our preference is fine-tune the old ones. This means (a) getting comfortable with the hardly-subtle nuances of a fixie drivetrain and (b) getting accustomed to dealing with traffic with no brakes aren’t in the cards, which is a shame because the delights of a fixie – simple beauty, little-to-no maintenance – it appeals on many levels. And this is why we have a bit of a crush on the Pinarello Lungavita. It lets you access this good without forcing you to risk life and limb.
The Lungavita comes with a flip-flop rear hub. One side has a real-deal fixed cog, i.e. if the rear wheel is moving, your crankset will be moving. But the other side is a single-speed freewheel cog that allows you to do what you’re used to doing – stop pedaling whenever you deem fit, exactly like your ability to freewheel on your regular everyday geared bike. The other touch of risk management is the presence of small brake levers on the bar tops – like what you’re attuned to seeing nowadays on cyclocross race bikes. After all “Lungavita” means “long life” and we’re not afraid of saying our days of doing overtly self-destructive things are pretty much behind us….
The Pinarello Lungavita frame is made from 6061 aluminum with a painted-to-match aluminum fork. It’s available in 5 sizes and comes as a complete bike only, and all you’ll need to add is pedals. It has a 46 tooth chainring and 14 tooth rear cog for a total gear of 86.4 inches.
USD $1000.00 and it doesn’t even come with a steel or carbon fork… 
^ Some pretty serious gearing there for a bike that looks like a lollipop.
That sums it up right there…
I suspect we won’t see many on the streets as they’re too expensive compared to old Masi Fixed etc.
Aluminium fork just puzzles me- I thought that was something reserved exclusively for the cheapest bikes?
this guy
if you know who that is, you’d be a bit careful about calling him names… bit of a temper he has (along with amazing bike building skills and being a founder of NAHMBS)
but to be fair, its a pretty funny shot…
No offence intended towards Don. Was just looking for someone in a kilt on a bicycle, and his was the first image up.