MGOOF : Modern groupset on old frame

Looks great, love how a silver soldered Italian steel frame is your winter beater #thuglife

Which headset, ahead adapter have you used? I think I have asked this already but forgot :)

Lovely Moser, the ride I so beautiful

Oh yeah, it was in this very same thread!!

Looking good!

Riddle me this people!

I still running an ahead to quill adaptor, however the quill adaptor have a bit of a neck that show the gap between the stem and headset.

What quill adaptor out there that almost hid that gap completely?

not a single one... it's terrible. I kept it quill or had the steerer lenghtened. I had it done by a frame builder, took him about 10 minutes to fix it.

A stem with more stack height could be a good remedy.

How much is a bit? Unless you machined one, I guess most have a small transition.
Won't a spacer/slammed stem cover it?

I have a Nitto adaptor I can look at, pretty sure that wasn't offensive as these things go.

edit - this one

Or, you can get the ones without the diameter increase and shim, no? like these...

That a much better idea, having a straight 1" quill adaptor plus shim should allow the stem to be slammed and look decent.

Thinking about it, I don't know why most aren't straight and include a shim. Not only do you have this ugly gap issue, but it also dictates the stack height with no top-cap finish. Straight one negates both these and does the job.

My second ever road bike. 2013(?)

Hey Ed, I know you're moving all these parts over since you got that other frame but I'm just wondering what group is this?
I'm undecided on a black or silver group to put on that Gios compact pro I just got from classifieds

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Campagnolo Veloce, its ironically cheaper than Shimano (especially on trade).

The exception is the Xenon derailleur that still work fine despite being very heavy.

Nice! Are they TB14's?

It's a shame Shimano were still making only fugly cranks when I modernised my Ron Cooper five years ago. I'm happy with the SRAM Force group from that time, but the Dura Ace 9000 looks ace.

Yes, TB14 to DA9000. Best period looking rim about IMO

@Señor_Bear Love this, looks spot on.

Not forgetting @dragulievic Rossin

How about some similar looking headset spacers between the threaded locknut and stem?

Picture doesn't work (for me). :/

Edit: Now it does!

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It did work, now its gone

I did that actually, but transpired it sometime rub on the headset and left some mark, however I got a new Campagnolo headset to fit on a new frame (Batavia Professional SLX from 1994), so gonna find a rubber shim to fit between the spacer and headset to reduced this.

Good point thought, will look into this spacer more.

I have a black headset and stem, so used carbon spacers - They're softer so shouldn't mark the headset and don't rattle nearly as much as the alloy ones I used previously! (my quill adapter seems to work loose verrrrry slowly over time)

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are you a professional bike photographer?