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@cino
OK OK I know what your thinking , Colnago Extreme power + Campag EPS - piss off daddy rich , this is the LFGSS - but hear me out , this isn't going to be a credit card shagging exercise , far from it , I work within the bike industry so therefore not rich , but I do have a bit of a passion for Italian bikes and can be pretty creative when it comes not spending too much, have a look at the Masi I built on here last Winter https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/297877/ give you some idea of how this project will go (hopefully!)
Now the seeds of this project were sown last Summer when a friend/customer of mine gifted me this;
Colnago Extreme Power Frame in the gorgeous ST01 tricolor paint job , I have the matching forks as well . I built this up for him a few years back with a full DA groupset and looked after it since , I've ridden it many times and it's a real treat , I've been quietly coveting it for years (not that quietly come to think of it!) and now it's mine! But there's a problem , a big fuck off problem , this is one sick puppy;
Got stacked in a race and the cast alloy dropout cracked , if you look at the pictures you can see where it's had a previous repair as well. Most carbon repair shops shy away from this job , but luckily I know a man who can , ED at London Carbon repairs , he's repaired a few of these in the past by grafting in a CNC machined titanium fork end , he's on the case now.
Not long after acquiring the frame, I had the loan of a Bottecchia with an Athena EPS groupset for a week, now I will stick my hand up and confess, I'am one of those old scrotes who think electronic gears are unnecessary (true), will break down and leave you stranded in top gear (possible), will catch fire and kill you (probably not), but after using EPS for a week I'am totally sold!
So that's the plan , fix the Nag frame , get S/H Campag EPS upgrade kit and build up. Now the more astute among you will know , that the Extreme Power frame is mechanical only , yep I know that, and this is where the project gets interesting , so this will be a full retro refit , so hole drilling etc , not too much on the interweb on this , but I've done stuff like this before and I'm confident I can do a good job, the goal being to make look as 'factory ' as possible.