Serotta CSI

Yeah, it's tight.

I took the stem bolt out, put a 1 pence in the gap, then wound the bolt back in against the coin, if that makes sense, which forced the clamp open very slightly?

I then used black touch up paint on the bars, as they got scratched no matter how careful I was.

Unscrew the front clamp screw, put a two pence coin in the gap, then screw back in onto the 2p. The screw will push on the coin and open the clamp good. Watch your leverage

^^ lolz

Didn't see that. Great advice Dammit

Great minds think alike, clearly!

That method was actually in the instructions for my 3ttt status. Felt silly having not thought of it myself.

I definitely savaged a pair of bars before finding that method

@Dammit @kaiseroscar thanks guys will give this go, thought I must be doing something wrong.

Good luck!

Did you sell the belgiums?

@Dammit @kaiseroscar massive rep guys, finally got it on!

Hurray! And Joe - no, they are currently in use:

I'll let you know when I've got round to ordering the TB14's

Great news

really?

Green eyes.

Also, it has a gooch channel which the current Arione does not.

fucken sad that the serotta has been demoted to turbo bike...

I just bought it a new turbo to sit on.

whoosh parrot

Do tell more

New radiator?

28.6-34.9 swaged 853, AKA Colorado Concept Tubing. These are seat tubes, happened upon a box of 5 NOS ones, which given that they are NLA I purchased.

Might do a (very!) limited number of frames with them, and probably keep at least two for repairing CSi's, Atlanta's etc.

What makes it so much better than commonly available seat tube tubing?

scarcity.