Rossin Prestige "neo-retro" build

Currently I am working on this one, I fall easily in love with bikes with the difference that I actually bought this one. The BB shell says 58 but it is a 56cm measured. C-C both the ST and TT. Originally I wanted to buy a modern carbon frame but firstly it would have been way more expensive and steel does have some advantages as well - less expensive, the classical elegant look and it is more flexible so it suffers less on our extremely shitty roads here in Slovakia.
Weight is a huge downside but I am not a weight weeinie fortunately (it will be 8.9KG +/-)
The bike is going to be equipped with a full modern 11s Campagnolo Chorus groupset, hopefully I will be able to finish the build next week
Other components: cinelli A1 stem, Nitto NAS106 bars, Nitto S83 seatpost, Prologo Screatch 2 Pas Nack saddle, Look Keo 2 Max pedals, etc. etc.
I do have a feeling that it will be quite a beast, haha.
More pictures coming soon :)

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Quite the beast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hella nice !

Sounds like a solid plan. Shouldn't the title be changed to ''neo-retro''?

Thats wicked, will be a good build. The colour of Ultegra would match nicely...

That fork crown is very beastly!

The seat stay bridge is nice too: compliments the crown.

I hear neo-retro builds are very in at the moment... need close-up shots of bb shell\chainstay 'juncture'. Oof

Yepp, corrected, thanks for bringing my attention to the typo

Whether they are "in" or not, I don't really care/know. I do not follow trends, I follow what I like. Honestly I could have equally bought a modern frame. But this one was available for a easonable price and since it is a rather rare and nice frame I did not hesitate. And I had the Prestige on my want list since I first saw it.
Regarding the details: there definitely will be some better photos in the near future ;)

this gonna be good

Slight tounge in cheek comment, I'm doing the same style of build at the moment. Look forward to seeing this develop.

Sure ;)
What frameset and gruppo?
EDIT: ok, I actually took the effort and went through your posts and found out that you´re building a Moser Leader AX. Nice one!

Thanks very much.

Such an awesome frameset. Looking forward to the final build!

• I found its sparkly brother which has quite an intense japanese vibe to it: http://m.ebay.com/itm/281843464184
  

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That's a purdy bike!

Oof nice frame

My favourite BB shell.

And whoever got this for 240$ is a lucky bastard...

Exactly. Especially with that paintjob. I bough mine for 320€ including shipping + the paintjob cost me another 150€ but I still think it was absolutely worth it. Once I came across with this frame on the internet selling for 900€...

Yepp, that BB shell is totally EPIC! not speaking of the fork crown and the hexagonal tubing!

UPDATE:
Yesterday the Nitto M106NAS bars finally arrived from Osaka after three weeks. An unusually long shipping time, items purchased from Japan usually arrive within 7-8 days.
Today the seatpost should arrive + the Chorus grouppo ditto.
Installing the handlebars was a terrible pain in the ass. Took me almost one hour. The diameter is 26mm, but the matching Cinelli A1 stem was quite stubborn. I had to remove the bolt and put a few coins there to stretch out the clamp a bit. The result: unfortunately the "M106NAS" logo is scratched a tiny bit but problem solved. The result is awesome, these bars are beautifully curved.

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Last pictures before the full build, I promise!
Prologo saddle & Nitto seatpost

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Love the bars, thinking about a set of these myself just the delivery time is putting me off. Out of interest how long is your stem?

You can try other shops (European included) and the bars will probably arrive sooner but they will be definitely more expensive at least by 20E. I found this on eBay and the price including shipping was 65-70EUR.
These are among the very few compact/shallow drop bars with 26mm diameter and I believe the most beautiful. Nitto is pure porn!
The Cinelli A1 stem is 130mm long. Maybe even a 120mm would have been sufficient...
Currently on my other Rossin with a 58cm C-C TT I am running a 130mm 3TTT Status but I have the impression that I am too stretched out.
This frame is shorter by 2cm so I thought by keeping the stem length I can reduce the reach by 2cm + the seat can be still moved forward a bit, though I do not want to make radical changes

Last pictures before the full build, I promise!

Please. I love these progress shots with test fittings of various components. My favourite part of bike building.