Simba's bike den

It's about time for me to start a running thread to update projects and source inputs from the hive mind.

First project up is a Greg Lemond built by the Billato brothers. My mate @Hulsroy helped me, by picking it up from the seller and took some nice shots of the frame.

In the parts bin I have:

• 6800 groupset
  
• 1" Chris King headset
  
• Carbon rims
  
  

Found some info on the frame here
https://www.pinkbike.com/buysell/1276643/
https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vintage/1132089-finally-found-gan-lemond-pic-heavy.html

There were only 100 of them released in the North American market back with the pre-Trek Lemond Bicycle Company contracted with the famous Bilato bicycle builder to have them made back in the early '90s. Many reviews call this bike the "absolute best steel frame ride, ever." Tubes are made of GLX by Excell out of France (GLX was Excell's response to Columbus's TSX tubes, which was their improvement on their earlier and heavier SLX steel tubes.) Frame was expertly built by the Bilato bros. out of Italy who were the premiere frame builders of the day. The fork has unique sharp pantographing on the curved crown. Other pantographs include Lemond's signature and "Hand Made" on the rear brake holder.
This is an excellent example of the pinnacle of 90's steel frame building.

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