Rossin Performance EL pursuit

Okay, these frames are quite rare and there are a little pictures + information in the internet so I try my best to find all additional information about the frame or bike that I can manage for future informational purposes and to please followers of this project with visual content.

So the frame is as stated in the title a Rossin pursuit and it is made of Columbus EL OS tubing. I found it NOS but it have had wheels on place when in storage. Never ridden. This has cool fork mount for handlebars which brings challenges considering the handlebars.

Some info I managed to find: Behind following link I found catalogues considering these rossin EL frames. I'll attach the important pic also here. It has some info of the og parts to this and the manfacturing year seems to be around 1992.

http://forum.tour-magazin.de/showthread.php?294447-Rossin-Performance-EL-Katalog-1992-93-Scan

I'll list some parts I'm considering for this build:

Wheels: Preferably double fluid disks. The front one 650c is on the way and I could have a converted Juno moscow kevlar disk - which I have borrowed for testing - for the rear end but I prefer fluid disk (I do not prefer the regular online price though) and will obtain one if I find something with reasonable price locally or via internet.

Handlebars are going to be either 3ttt moscow takhion bars or then maybe some other 3ttt moscow model which I mod to similar style than the takhion bars by chopping the ends of and turn those around with some welding action.

For the crankset + seatpost the logical option would be Campy C-record but those are quite expensive so might go with modern record crankset + some random aero seatpost.

Headset is a gipi pista which at least in Finland was the standard with rossins.

I also have a Olmo pursuit fork for this for regular stem purposes but if I get the handlebars for the fork mount then I'll put this onwards (or keep it as it's columbus max and quite nice).

I'll update this topic as the project goes on. Hopefully people find this nice to follow.

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Balllllllllllller

awesome

Aw yeah, that fork is crazy

subbedsubbedsubbed!

Very beautiful Cinelli!! :)

Ahh saw this on pedal room today. Insta-sub.

Im in love!!!

Few pics, front disk will be arriving probably on monday

Rear disk and spare Olmo 26" pursuit fork. If all goes well, no need for extra fork though but nice piece still.

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So good! subbed.

What bars are you going to use?

interesting!!!
coupled it with FIR wheels will be sick!

I probably get the 3ttt moscow takhions as I have one friend who could arrange me a set of those but if that turns out nothing, then I'll chop regular 3ttt moscows and flip the ends and weld back up so that they look similar as it's not that important what bars but how they look and I definitely need the rising bullhorns for a bit upwards position.

Yeah. I always thought that finding those bullhorns of the takhion shape would be really hard. Hard to replicate the flick at the end as well.
Sounds great. Hope it goes well.

where'd you pull them out of? That Juno Disc is lovely btw.

I would say you would have better luck having bars bent to spec then modding a standard Moscow

I swear some dude was making some on instagram? he had or was working with someone who had a red rossin I think

Lovely frame, double juna discs = winning

Think that was the forks not the handlebars

Found these ones. The rear fluid disk is hard to come by with reasonable price so while I'm looking at it I atleast have one rear disk. Aerospoke just made itself to the deal but that's more appropriate in windy conditions as we only have outdoors velodrome.

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Wow. Yeah needs double juna that would really finish it off. Bars do pop up every now and then but it's worth asking the people that collect these they normal have a spare set or will point you in the right detection. I hope to see this build up quickly but you'll be lucky.Worth waiting for right parts. Dibs if you ever sell

Juna disks are road disks so probably going to go with double fluidisks atleast now when a rear one popped up with very reasonable price to match the front 650c. Have to consider now what to do with the FIR disk as I bought it without really thinking so probably going to sell it.

really nice project! there is a picture of a performance el pursuit on the rossin website.
http://rossinbikes.it/en/p/dai-dilettanti-ai-professionisti/

Yes, I've also seen the image in bigger size. Those wheels would be nice to the rossin but are not atleast the factory setup as it had fir wheels (probably laced to campy c-record hubs) according to the documentation I linked in the first post. It might have had fir disks though as the cataloque does not state it. The one in the picture seems to be older as well but really hard to tell exactly. Maybe if someone can tell what wheels those are I could try to find out wether those are available anywhere.

Those in the catalogue are FIR carbon wheels, they were producing 3-4-5-6 spoke wheels between 80s and 90s:

Awesome find!!

Okay, thanks a lot, now I have to stard sourcing those.
Here's a pic of the fron fluidisk I got. White stain is some old glue of the fluidisk sticker that highlights in the pic but that I will remove.

If someone knows what threading is in the fluidisk, please tell so I manage to get new track nuts.

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