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That's pretty cool

Putting a 1" ahead stem on a threaded fork that's been cut, is it possible?

I'm sure it could potentially end in catastrophic failure, but I did it quite happily for six months or so with a pair of threaded carbon Mizunos that I believe ended up in your possession! I'm still alive, and I assume the forks are still alive, so read into that what you will...

I'd trust it as long as there's no threads (they weaken the material properties) left on the steerer.

Not those forks I'm afraid. Sold them off a while ago. These are the orig steel fork to my Pesenti frame. I think I need some sort of extender to fit the ahead stem.

Since new fork have slightly more clearance than the old damaged one, tried fitting the 30mm Challenge Strada Bianca on the Genesis Volare and it actually fit, abet tight.

Paris Roubaix next year maybe? I did got that size down look sorted after all.

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Looks great Ed.

It's no Gatorskin Sprint tubular tho.

Looking at that reminds me of the time you brought the "perfect" road bike back from America , leaving the gangsta behind. Whatever happened to the gangstar?

The Lotus was a great bike, it was given away to a friend of mine who use it for bridleway bashing.

That Lotus was replaced by the Oaks, clearance is nice, but can only go 25mm with mudguard despite being able to run 32mm without.

@Kirth still have it, I rather my bike to be put to good use than nothing.

New / temporary seatpost:

Turned out that despite the previous one being 26.4mm and stuck right in there the frame actually takes something a little larger. So this one's 26,6 and appears a better fit.

Looks good! What are these brakes?

and still riding it, although debating moving back to caliper brakes but haven't done anything. It's my daily ride

They're blue anodised Modolo Speedy. Only the calipers though, haven't come across the levers at a sensible price so not really planning on matching them.

fresh tape, new seatpost, and had my Dura Ace hubs rebuilt onto some Archetypes after trashing the carbon rims. I'm really loving this bike at the moment.

Wut? Is that really a bianchi? Looks really sweet though...

why wouldn't it be a really bianchi? They not all celeste ya know

What? you mean they aren't?

It is pretty close though. I have never seen an orange Bianchi (other than the mtbs) neither a fillet brazed one. Bianchi was a big factory, they didn't do many bespoked fillet brazed frames I believe. Mostly off the peg lugged frames. I might be wrong though, that's why I am asking..

Very tidy

How do you clamp the seatpost in this one? Fresh bike!

Fork and tyres look good, Ed.

I know there's nothing functionally wrong with the cranks but you need to upgrade that shit :-)

It got Campagnolo Veloce on it, I think you can safety wager why I didn't upgrade the cranks, even the Lizardskin tape is from a customer crash damaged Cervelo.

Might need to change the chainring if I couldn't true it.