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One of the first stems was to strip off and sell the parts that I don't want, which is almost everything on it. Thanks to the buyers on the forum I've managed to recoup some of these costs to pay for the modern bits I'll be putting on it.
The frame itself dates from 1999, the Zipp 808's are from about 2006 or thereabouts. The rest of the parts are a mish mash of Dura-Ace 7900, 7400, 7700 as well as 10sp Campag Chorus. I'll keep the wheels and frame and sell the rest. What was amazing was how clean this whole bike was, the seller advised me that it was used by his late father for a few TT's and it definitely appears so, barely a scratch and the paint looks practically new!
Second step was to have a better look at the wheels. Those decals with the red stripe bugged me so off they came, I much prefer the plainer Zipp decals, not sure if to go with the white or black ones later....
Both ran very true and checked tension. Front wheel was a good 80kgf all around, the back was a bit low so I attempted to bring this up a bit and managed to shear one of the alloy nipples in half... So I decided to rebuild the rear wheel with new brass nipples, I never liked alloy nipples particularly on highly tensioned rears.
FYI, the original rear wheel weighed about 993g with alloy spokes, and then 1009g with brass.