Retro Cougar TT bike

Impulse purchase on eBay last night. Haven't really planned the build at all so open for advice/suggestions.

Current thinking is to go Italian. Campag C Record era 8sp. Shamals. Rolls saddle. Cinelli stem & bars.

Will be a slow burner but I'll try keep this updated as things take shape.

Screenshot from eBay.

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Keep me posted on those 19mm 650c studded tyres

Will let you know about the reach too.

The slowest TT bike in the world is starting to take shape (finally got it shipped to where I live).

Picked up a nice Campag Athena groupset — still need some bars (ideally Cinelli LA 84) and a seat post (unsure of which diameter I need though — my crappy callipers read 26mm-ish). Also got to get cables.

Looking at the BB and wondered if anyone has any advice on how to cable it? Seems it's a Cinelli "Spoiler" BB, but not much info on Google on how to actually wire it up properly. Some hasty images I just took...

Images (upload crashed before).

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Its pretty straight forward, the rear derailleur cable needs to be threaded through the two sets of holes, which is at the top on your BB pics above. It goes from the shifters through the stamped bottom bracket face plate, then through that second little thingy just the other side of the bottom backet, then along the drive side chain stay and through the next little thingy near the rear derailleur mount. and then connected to your rear derailleur. #technical terms r us.

The front derailleur cable again threads through the bottom bracket on the stamped side, then run the cable in the grove that goes up between chainstays and connect directly to your front derailleur.

Cool ok. So no stepped ferrules or other such needed?

Not on the bottom bracket itself.

I assume you need one for the thingy near the rear derailleur mount, where the exposed cable running from the BB goes into the outer cable for the loop into the rear derailleur, but I can't see clearly from the pic what that takes exactly. Guess its just one of these need.
https://www.condorcycles.com/products/campagnolo-stepped-gear-ferrule?variant=21255010811987&utm_campaign=8545389568&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=83380994301&gclid=Cj0KCQiA9orxBRD0ARIsAK9JDxR4AWp6NY0oLTd5sGWYriNI_1sAiy1kPtbqupvV-ri4AyGnW4XZzAIaAtlcEALw_wcB

Yes that’s the one! Thanks for the info.

Will post some photos as the build progresses (and stick a wanted ad up for the parts I need).

So — cables for retro campag groupsets. Talk to me.

I have an 80s Campag Athena gruppo with DT shifters. Looks like the cables don't exit the brake levers from the tops, but instead from under the hoods.

As much as I'd love some NOS campag original cables and housings, I don't think it's worth it.

Ideally I'd like white outers. Anyone know any good and reasonably priced options out there? Have googled but not had much joy.

Thats hot. I’m building a 90’s tt bike myself all decked out with campag 8spd c record stuff

Made some progress. Big thanks to folks on here sold me the bars and stem. Still quite a way to go but it's getting there.

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Yours is looking ace, good work.

Yes!

Are you planning to use this machine for time trials?

If so you will find your performances are a bit disappointing (by modern standards) if you don't use 'clip on' bars. These were permitted from the '91 season onwards, so they wouldn't be wildly anachronistic, and it is estimated that they make a difference of about 6 seconds per mile, that is about two and a half minutes in a 25. This gain was enough to keep a number of old blokes in the TT game who would otherwise have retired - incidentally, the faster you go, the greater the benefit!

I haven't got plans to race TTs on it really. Essentially it was an impulse (+ beers) eBay purchase. Finally got it shipped to Sweden before the winter and have slowly been building it up.

I expect it'll just make an absurd cafe bike.