MGOOF : Modern groupset on old frame

Each to their own I guess. Reasons for wrapping from the bottom of the bars explained:

Wrapping bar tape bottom-up vs top-down

No finishing tape doesn’t seem like much of a win.

yawn I've played knifey-spooney before, you know. Use a tape that has a stiffer or less elastic outer layer than the foam underneath, wrap it tight and you won't get edge curling.

Been going top down for 25+ years, reckon I could even wrap most plain foam tapes tight enough not to curl.

Just finished putting together this rowdy Italian. Thanks to @Zeeburg for posting the classified ad on the forum for the frame which arrived yesterday, and thanks to @coventry_eagle at BC for sorting me out yesterday with last minute cables and housing and a step down ferrule, something I never seem to have in my parts bin.

Not sure if 10 speed still counts as modern components, but its about a decade newer than
the frame so I'm claiming it qualifies. The panels on the down tube and seat tube are sprayed with pink, red, yellow and light green bands and so the bike reveals different colours depending on where you look at it from. And it has stampeding horses along the top tube so I obviously had to buy it.

It's so over the top Italian I love it. Previous owner forwarded an email from Tommasini who confirmed the frame is from Nov 91 and was made for Belgium distributor Van Peterhem sport. Miami Vice had finished the year before, and to me the bike still evokes images of Pantani and Cippolini breezing through Italian villages shattering windows with their neon bikes and jerseys by day, and horsing through fistfulls of cocaine like Tony Montana and sneaking out of married women's bedrooms by night.

Returning to the real world I had to see what it looked like with some old Shamal tubulars I had, but I'll not be riding around London on those regularly so also shown with its everyday shoes. Apologies for rubbish phone pics just managed to snap them before the light disappeared.

Rowdy indeed! Love those pink dropouts, surrounded by chrome 😍

That is really taaaaasty @user75204. Nice work on the build.

Yes fam!

Is that white Lizard skin tape? Got a NIB set if you're looking for spares!

Tommassini is legit.

Lovely

Excellent work.

Loved this

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Like that a lot. Bit tasty to be locked up like that but to each their own.

Luckily good security to get into the shed itself so it should be fine

Fucken bellissimo. That thing is bangin, especially with the Shamals!

Up in the lakes with my Serotta. If anyone has a SR front mech feel free to DM me

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lovely pic... are the gulls props?

That pic deserves better weather 🙌

Got the rear mech working with the 32t then? 👍

Those wheels look great! (As does the rest of the bike)

Just very well trained. The equivalent of Scarponi’s parrot

As do I! The forecast for the next few days looks better at least

Haha, at the moment this is still a 29 cassette. Your cassette is destined for a different set of wheels, for now at least.

Awesome !

This build is bootifull. Do you know the name of the frame colour? Doing a benotto up and would like to spray it in this colour or similar.

Merci!

Hi mate sorry for late reply, tape is Fizik 2.5mm tape.

That Serotta and its surrounds look lush.

I've had to wait a few days to ride it in the sunshine, and did some minor positional tweaks and finished it off with some Tommasini bar ends, and managed to eek out some marginally less shit pics from my crap phone. Chrome always looks better with a bit of sunshine.

The non-drive side colours

And agree with Kimmo the pink on the Shamals looks good with this frame, which is without doubt the loudest looking bike I've ever owned.

Oh man, you nailed it!