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First of all thanks for anyone following and thanks for the compliments.
Then for the serious matter. I have to admit that when the project is on, I can't do rational things. I hoped that I could have built a nice bike on the streets. Well it came up nice and I'm happy on the end result as far as period correct parts and style goes but at the same time I'm angry for myself as tubulars, track drops and the rest of the build is not street friendly.
This brings me back to the project, Rossin pista, but this time for streets. Being angry I sourced another pista frame for myself. The blue one is 56cm c-c horizontal (maybe 55,5cm but who gives a fuck) and c-c for seat tube is 56cm flat. For the new one corresponding dimensions are 56cm and 56,5cm so it's pretty close to the same size.
Unfortunately I almost overshot it again. Full super record pista this time. Gladly I do not want to ruin the NOS pedals and the wheels are clinchers so I just need to find street friendly drop bars for my rossin pantograph stem and that's it. Also SPD pedals are coming for this bike. Maybe I can source myself a cinelli champion del mondo drops which have the most usable hand position on the top part of the bars. For now I'm settling for pro craft compact drops as I found used set near me for cheap and I like the compact style of drop bar.
Here are some pics:
The frameset came with c-record headset with those plastic/rubber rings. It's a later model before the same style record headset. I think I'll end up using that instead of the super record pista headset as the stack height of the steerer is set for the c-record which is longer than the super record headsets stack height and I do not want to go through the trouble of cutting the steerer for now.