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Do you enjoy water splashing up on your face then?
Looks nice, GL
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The plan is to build it up with Record Titanium 8 speed parts.
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I don't generally enjoy having water splashed on my face, although of course it depends on context and who's doing the splashing and why. This will definitely be a high days and holidays bike though - I've got other bikes to use when it's wet.
Thanks for the heads up @Scilly.Suffolk - I knew of the original issues with the rings, although at a pinch I could probably machine one myself. I'll sign up for @zootsuit 's repro units.
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So I've never understood why many feel deltas are poor brakes. Once setup, they are good, very good. Rode them heavily in the 80's and 90's and my single speed uses them in central London and no issues.
Sure, you need to set them up but I feel most who've commented on deltas haven't really ridden them before
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Stem looks like my Profile, which is not Ti.
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This one's definitely not a Profile stem, and I'm pretty sure it is titanium. Apart from the fact that someone's gone to the trouble of screen-printing 'TITANE' on the side, the tubing is way too thin for it to be aluminium and it's not magnetic. So unless someone's been making stems from thin-walled stainless, I reckon it's titanium.
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Right, parts for the build. The handlebars are mid-90s Giro d'Italias (64-42) with the double groove for brake and gear cables as I'll be using Ergopower shifters with both cables routed under the bar tape. I got them from Hilary Stone for a really rather reasonable price. They had a lot of old dried bar tape and glue on them, but nothing that a good wipe down with my current favourite solvent (MEKK - definitely one to use with the door open) couldn't shift.
There's a bit of scratching on the centre section, but they're Nicely Usable rather than NOS Pristine, which is fine as I am planning to actually use the bike. Then for the stem I've got a 120mm Cinelli Grammo from eBay, with the all important lozenge-shaped top cap, which has come up rather nicely with a quick polish with some Autosol.
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Quick updated on the Parts Purchasing Process. I'm swapping out the rear derailleur, as the one that's fitted is a 9 speed Record Titanium model, which is functionally the same as the 8 speed one, but says 9 speed on it. Clearly, that will never do. I've also sourced a band-on Record front derailleur of the right vintage. There was no Record Titanium front derailleur as far as I can tell, so it's a standard 1996/7 Record one.
The front mech's in really good condition. The frame doesn't have a braze-on front derailleur fixture, and I didn't really want to have an adaptor, so it took quite a long time to find a 28.6mm band version as most on the market seemed to be either 31.6mm or braze-on models. Got there in the end though.
The rear derailleur isn't in quite such good condition - it's got some dings around the limit screws. But overall it's not in bad nick, and it was a lot cheaper than the stupid prices being are asking (and getting) for NOS Record Titanium stuff.
Next up, shifters, saddle and seatpost. The latter could be painful, given how much Record Titanium seatposts seem to be going for these days.
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There’s a chorus Ti (27,2 mm) for sale here in Belgium, he’s asking 100 euro for it.
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Me Nago - Colnago Bititan
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Colnagos have always left me a bit cold. They're nice'n'all, and some of them are very well made, but I've never really seen what's so special about them. Except for the Bititan, the titanium Colnago with the twin down tubes. I've no idea why I find it intriguing, but I suspect it's because it's obviously such a daft design. Given that titanium isn't as stiff as steel you'd expect a sensible designer to spec larger diameter tubing or thicker walled tubing to compensate for the more flexible material. Instead, Colnago used two much smaller tubes in what appears to have been an utterly misguided attempt to deal with this.
So at the beginning of the year, in a fit of self-pity due to 2 months of unpleasant dental issues and inspired by beer, I got this off eBay from a nice man in Nerac:
The tyres will have to go, of course, the Shamals need truing, and it's got a Record Titanium 9 speed rear derailleur but an 8 speed cassette. The plan is to build it up with Record Titanium 8 speed parts. I've got some of the parts - I'll post details later.