Another Zeus Pista

Bought this frame last summer with the intention of building a "nice" bike, however moving house and supporting a family on one income has made this a slow progress.

Built it up with lots of placeholders and did som fair weather riding on it, it´s so much lighter than my beater. It rode nice but I didn´t like the look of it, esp wheels and chainring.

Bought a velosolo chainring and started looking into building my own set of wheels. It sat on my turbo during the winter and this year i have been collecting some parts for it...
Most recent setup:

Parts:

Got a campa bb not pictured and waiting on some chainring bolts. Might start putting things together today.

The big pita so far has been the rims. I ordered a set of 32h rims and got a set of36h, emailed the shop several times but so far they have ignored me or given nonsensical replies. Probably have to bite the bullet and call them.

Still need:
Crank bolts
17t cog
sort out the wheel business

Fitted Saddle, seat post, bb, cranks and chainring yesterday.

Saddle is a Hurrican, was sold as a "Spanish turbo" so I thought it wold fit the build. Fitting the saddle on the seat post was a lot less fiddly than I expected it to be.

Found a bag of campy chainring bolts in my parts bin, didn't take a picture of it but the crank sit very close to the chainstay, might have to file it down a bit.

Measured the chainline to 43mm, should be fine.

Good work so far my friend! :-)
I ask you kindly if and when you have the chance to buy this beauty some proper decals, you can find them on ebay and cyclomondo. Will look good when finished I can tell.

Ps. Be careful with the threading on the pedals and cranks and other parts. They often used metric and BSC bits are quite rare. Spanish toe clips - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NOS-Vintage-Ducson-Grand-Prix-TOE-CLIPS-2x-Drilled-Chromed-LEroica-/291376083480?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43d75e3218

Thank you! :) Your thread has been a massite inspiration although im probably not gonna go full zeus. Haven't thought about new decals but something like this would look ace: http://www.ebay.com/itm/351066102056?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2648&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

That's a lovely frame.
I really like this setup

Do you have better pics?

Gahh! Both cranksets have french threding and the pedals are BSC! According to Sheldon "Aluminum French cranks are easily rethreaded to 9/16" x 20 TPI." Talked to my lbs in town and they can't do it so I'm thinking about doing it myself. Found these after some quick ebaying:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/IceToolz-Thread-screw-tap-9-16-Pedal-Set-of-right-and-left-Black-Yellow-Bike-/311373166189?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item487f49766d

Not to pricey and IceToolz are decent quality right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUWceRCJm1E&feature=youtu.be

Pesky french threds be gone!

Victory!

There is something rattling around in one of the pedals so Im going to take them apart, clean and regrease next.

That's a lovely frame.
I really like this setup
Do you have better pics?

Thanks! No more pics sorry.

Small update: Cleaned and regreased the pedals.

Found the source of the rattling, the bearing was completly dry and the balls made the sound as the pedal spun around the axel.

Won a 17t and a 19t zeus alu cogs, (notecibly thicker than the 18t steel one I already have)

and a set of zeus chainring bolts.

So now the drivetrain is complete:

So, whats left? Well, I haven't sorted out the wheels yet, lost the bet on a set of Zeus pista hubs to some last second ninja bidder, there is a set on ebay currently with a ridiculous price, made a cheeky offer but I doubt I will get them... going to post a wanted add here aswell.

On a side note this also happend:

Salmon looks goood, such rad fades but is smaller than the Zeus?
Also are you keeping the 18t cog? can trade for some smaller alu cogs I have spare :-)

Has it been seven months? Damn!

Well things are moving forward, finaly got the right rims (Hubjub mixed up my order so I had to go to Copenhagen to switch packages with some poor guy). Built them up only to realise the valveplacement was wrong on both wheels so I had to do it again...

In progress:

Finished (the cat is impressed):

Sorry for the late reply. Just got a 50t chainring so I might use the 18t cog with that. Plus I live in sweden so the postage might be a bit steep.

Wheels fitted:

The stems I´ve tried to fit have all gone in very reluctantly so I figured it was a french sized fork that some prevuos owner had forced a bsc headset on. I spent a coulpe of months tracking down a french sized headset and finaly got this from troc-velo.com:

I tried fitting it but the treads wouldnt engage, got my calipers out and measured, the steerer diam is 22.1 mm. Cleaned it out, greased the stem and it fitted like a glove. Dont know if I can be arsed to get a zeus BSC headset, I have already spent too much money on bike stuff this month, and this wasnt supposed to be a full zeus build.

Since this wasnt supposed to be a full zeus build I recently bought not one, but two rear zeus track hubs :) The high flange one is laced to a 650c Mavic mach 2 cd 2 rim so I will delace it and sell the rim.

Done for now!

The roads are shite atm so I will have to wait for spring to try it out properly but Im pretty happy right now.

Beautiful. Congrats man

Top job

:)

sick!

Hello! Great blog, and nice work shown here.
I am trying to build my own Zeus Pista. Could anyone tell me where I could find some Zeus pista parts, please?
Thanks!

can we see it now with te new headset ?

Wow

Beautiful build that has been carefully out together despite all the thread-challenges

How old is the frame? Is it repainted or original?

Well, to be honest I haven't done anything with the bike since the last picture was taken. I've contemplated selling it for a while now and will probably put it up for sale in the next few days.