Originally Posted by
AJW2W11E
I bought my Pista last year , it was almost brand new and unridden for a decade. Boy do I love that bike. I 've heard it called the cheap Asian mass produced Pista and sneered at. I don't know a lot about bikes, but this is a good bike.
Its steel, which is good, because with its skinny frame it would be scrap aluminum now by now as clumsy as I am. I've hit some big potholes and crashed into a big road sign . I ride her 4 days a week 23 miles a ride and the frame has just the right rigidity in it.
I save her for the days my legs are fresh, and its a real high. Mostly I keep off the heavily ridden bike lanes because she attracts a lot of people who want to race, but its not worth burning yourself one day and feeling beat the other days .
I think most of us here are just having fun about them. I love me some asian, mass produced bikes.
Honestly, I'd never have any fun on some ultra rare, once in a lifetime, 2000 dollar frame. I couldn't. I'd be terrified of losing to an accident or a thief or whatever.