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Thanks James. Ok so now the thread is up to speed - plans.
Looking to put some gears on this for summer riding out in the countryside, so I've procured a track frame to take over city fixed duties (will start another thread for that at some point).
I picked up a Shimano RX100 8 spd group from Tommmmmmm a couple of months ago, so next step is to find some wheels. I nearly purchased some silver Mavic Cosmics (example below) which would have been perfect (as far as I'm aware the RMO team were pretty much exclusively kitted out with Mavic stuff) but the rear rim was cracked and so I had to abort that one.
On a similar tip, I'm very tempted by these:
http://www.lfgss.com/thread89763.html
However they are Campag 8 spd. Supposedly I could just try with a campag cassette and if shifting isn't optimal re-space the cassette for Shimano indexing? They look like seriously nice wheels, but I'm wondering if they're a bit too nice for this frame/groupset and might cause me more trouble than they're worth being campag? Maybe I should go for something more modest/sensible for my first fully geared build?
Then again they are NOS and should last a while - I could hang on to them and upgrade frame/group to something more special later. Really not sure. Opinions please!