650B cromovelato, from the 80s to today

Thank you @Lanterne_Rouge, they are really comfortable!

update:

Had a chance to try another bottom bracket, JIS 115mm and it's perfect! At least now i know what's the difference between jis and jis low profile.
Guess i'm ordering a Shimano BB-1055!

I've got a pair of the Gilles Berthoud fenders and they're great, put up with plenty of off road abuse and the hardware is neat and sensible. Only downside is the edges are quite hard to lever up if you want to fit a flap by crimping it.

Edit: looks like a really nice build!

@SupremeSausageChampion good to know, would be awesome to find them used, i'll keep looking for some lucky shot. Thanks for the compliment!

Anything cheaper around? I'd like to avoid plastic.

A little update.

I swapped the bottom bracket with a JIS (old one was jis low profile) and even if it's better than before, still gives me problems getting on big chainring. Now, the sealed bearings shimano BB i tried had the same axle (115mm) and it worked perfectly, there can be some little differences on the same axle lenght? some kind of offset maybe?

I bought some cheap inox fenders (just to see how it would look) and after some work adapting them here and there, i ran them on the gravel. I don't like how they assemble on the eyelets and on the brake bridge, but they at least seems stable; i had to create a way to fix the rear one on the brake bridge and i now still need to "adapt the look" on the wheel profile, they actually are for 26" wheels.

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