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So I spotted this and decided to make an offer on it as it was my size (52cm) and the electric blue paint job caught my eye. The seller claimed it was a Brian Rourke which was refinished by Dave Hinde, the giveaway was that the seat stays wrap around. Also that the tube set was likely 531 or some sort of Columbus, so I decided to give it a punt.
After coming back from holidays it was at my house and I unpacked it immediately and gave it a Quick Look. Generally checked out, Campagnolo dropouts, looked like a high quality frame with nice bits, no dents only some minor rust and some chips. Gave it a polish and the paint came up really nice. Not sure of the vintage, I would have guessed 80's as it has small cable stops that don't take normal 5mm cable ferrules. Rear spacing is 130mm, but could have been cold set? Seatpost is 27.2 so likely it's a lightweight frame.
Lo and behold the frame is pretty light, 1.9kg frame and 668g forks. So could be some kind of Reynolds 531, maybe 531c?
I bought the frame over Christmas and in the meantime also got a groupset to match this. Main concept is to build this fully or mostly out of vintage 80's/90's parts. Probably Campagnolo or similar, lots of chrome. My favourite era of Campagnolo stuff, where everything was polished and sinuously shaped. I've always found this era of Campagnolo stuff a bit mysterious, as none of the parts are ever labelled like Shimano stuff! And they all look quite similar so very easy to confuse between groups.
Not dissimilar from my 1991 Cannondale 2.8 build https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/386203/ but this will be a proper vintage bike rather than a Restomod
Here's some inspo shots
Probably can't afford Delta brakes though....
In any case I managed to score a 2nd Gen Chorus 8sp groupset. This has the early model Ergopower shifters with the pointy hoods.
Generally working condition, cosmetically has had some use. As part of this process, I had a lot of spare time over Christmas to research and went through a lot of old Campag catalogues from the 90's. It appeared to be all matching and the seller said it was taken all off one bike. Going from the catalogues it looks like it's probably 1995
Plans are to rebuild the Ergopowers, get the shifting sweet, build some wheels, strip and polish the crankset and fill in the missing bits like seat post and headset.