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Hi, the bicycle made it here last saturday morning. Since had to take it appart completely for a deep cleaning i just swapped the group for a campagnolo potenza 11 silver. Had to fix a few details here and there which I was expecting TBH. Like trashing the drop out adjusters and the brifters down tube adjusters (those took me a while to remove... always put grease kids, always).
Usually what i do is just sand the whole paint job with 2000 grit sand paper and then polish the whole thing but this time I did not do that just because I was super horny to ride this one :p, i did not not even removed the headset cups from the frame to check them out, so after cleaning and regreasing the headset, play with the drop out alligment tool i went and put the potenza, swapped the stem for a 12 cm (came with a 10). Did a eyeballed fit and went out...
This thing super nice, same level than a derosa prof. and the EM corsa I have in the stable. Very to extremely obedient frame, where ever i told it to go just did it with easy. For the record im a columbus guy, this one is 531c. Big difference between the 2 in the ride, 531 is a softer tube and taking that in consideration the bike is just super nice, flats, false flats and downhills, this one just go. Serious climbing? well 531 in it... it does ok but you can tell is his weak point besides i dont climb and im like 200 pounds fat so take this opinion with a grain of salt.
My only complain is that if you hammering badly like launching and attack from the upper banks in a track (trackers know what im talking about) I was able to feel the wheel/s touching the brake pads a couple of times. Not sure if its the 531 in it... or maybe the pads too close to the rims or just flexible wheels? Will swap the calipers for a set of chorus or maybe for the set of dura ace ones that came with the bike just to test. So if anybody has an insight about this, please go ahead.
So if you dont have an agressive track style standing over the pedals, probably the brake pads situation wont be a problem at all, actually tried to stand up over the pedals like a fanny :P and it worked hehehe... i was a tracker back in the day so...
Will post pictures later one probably next week :) Super happy with it nevertheless :D and probably this is the last bike I hope to buy because my bucket list pretty much is empty now. Took me like 25 years to find one of those TVMs in my size.
This reminds me have to move some frames out... :/