CP: #sancinetoremake

Inspiring. Got an old Colnago super with a crashed front end. Might try rebuilding it with a new front triangle and 1 1/8" as well!

Thx. You should definitely do it. :-)

Nice work! How did you remove the old head tube? Did you do it mechanically or did you have to apply heat to get it separated from the remainder of the lugs?

Hacksaws and files. Just left enough lugs to make it a nice even fillet to lug transisition

like this

My homemade seatpost ended up failing, so I bought a Thomson seatpost. Really the only nice seatpost available in 26.8

It's more or less done now. I have ridden it ca. 1000 km and I love it.
I might choose to paint it when I get the hang of painting frames myself. But the chrome holds up great for now. I also want a nicer wheelset eventually and a pair of full carbon forks.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/6b8d3a8b83fd94809dc511866123700c/tumblr_n37pka7Eyh1s5dcnxo1_1280.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/1e3a083e553df6c069740befc431bb18/tumblr_n37pn6Q28T1s5dcnxo1_1280.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/e57a55ee02de110220a4817f8abff248/tumblr_n38sij0w8k1s5dcnxo1_1280.jpg

How did it fail?

making your own seat attachment device
rep

i take this back !!

and have nerged to rebalance the +ve rep ;-)

Lol. I mounted the bike cx-style with a backpack full of camera equipment (25kgs) and the hole thing gave in and the saddle slipped out of the rods. I ended up in the hospital as I cut my groin pretty bad.
The alu post basicly is a

without the clamping system. I will never ever have a seatpost that consist of more than 3 parts ever again ;-)

Great work, it's nice to see an old frame resurrected and modernised. I wish I had the skills to do something like that, maybe one day.

Thanks. I do not get why we do not have a imageresizer on this site.
Anyways:

the hole thing gave in

ouch!

The alu post basicly is a [horror movie scene] without the clamping system.

Fuck! My balls have shrunk to the size of raisins reading this. Glad you're ok after all. And very good work, both the frame and the bike build.

Btw, what bottle cages are those?

Beautiful, what did you use for getting the brushed look of steel?

@russmeyer: Thank you. The cages are Blackburn from bikecomponents.de Pretty cheap alternative to something that looks like King Cages. #cheapskating

http://www.bike-components.de/products/info/p32193_Comp-Flaschenhalter.html?xtcr=10&xtmcl=blackburn

@FreddyCro: The frame was chromed under the paint. I scraped and brushed off the paint. Then smooth it out using real fine emory cloth. So it is only the head tube that is raw steel. Eventually I will paint the whole thing.

cheapskating

Exactly! Thanks for the link.

This is excellent, props to you for ingenuity

Thank you.

Update:

New wheels. Hope Pro 3 on A23s 32h DT something spokes. Rotor kranks. New chain, cassette and chainrings. New bar tape and a little adjusting of the cockpit as well. Like riding a new bike.

Ridden about 4k on it now. Love it.

the jagwire looks rad. is it carbon silver?

the rest of its pretty nice too ;)

Yeah exactly. Thanks

I am selling this here:
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/267234/#comment12255417