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JusCos
I was fortunate enough to pick up a great donor bike last week who's price was considerably less than the sum of the parts. It gave me opportunity to swap out a few components on my 80's super and near complete a Super Record Groupset. @rive_gauche I eat my words, your observations/suggestions were spot on IMO. My good pal Jules who has I think the biggest collection in the world of Campag stuff (OK maybe an exaggeration) let go some NOS levers and some good SR pedals as well as giving me a nice OMAS BB to replace the too narrow 109mm Campag one that allowed the inner ring to foul on the stay. Decided to replace the 3TTT bars & stem with Cinelli ones at the same time as well as wrapping some cloth bar tape which was a bit harder to do than the usual cork stuff I'm used to as it has little to no stretch to stop creasing.
The bar tape looked far too 'bling' so I gave it a bit of an aged look with some shoe polish. I changed the brake outer cables to grey but didn't like it so much and so put the black back on.
I know I said I was happy with it as it was a few weeks back but now I think I'm one step further.
Maybe swap out the seatpost to a SR one in the future but not sure as it looks OKish and I think there was an overlap in the timeline with the fluted and aero posts, maybe someone knows for sure?