Electric blue to Jeff Bruce

A few updates. Managed to get the front brake calliper to fit with only about 2mm of filing in the arm slots

And did a bit of a mockup with some wheels I had hanging about

I had a bit of a think about what I do with the wheels as I had a bit of a dilemma, the shifters are 8 speed so basically it means you have the following options for cassettes and freehub

• Original Campagnolo 8sp cassettes and freehub. Availability is limited and hubs are generally all vintage
  
• Shimano HG freehub with Shimano 8 speed cassette but use Shimano 7 speed spacers. This is a bit of a kludge but actually works really well as the spacing is the same as the Campagnolo 8sp.
  
  

Availability of cassette choice is a bit limited for both and the max sprocket of the Chorus derailleur is theoretically 26t, although I have heard 28t is fine in reality.

The other option which might actually be easier is to convert the shifters for 9sp, apparently it only requires the change of the index ratchet part. The other plus is that I am going to build a wheel set for this bike so if I am going to spend a bit of coin I would prefer to have some future proofing, a 9sp Campagnolo freehub generally can also fit 10 and 11sp Campagnolo which has compatibility with two of my other bikes… Also I managed to score this on ebay for very little, apparently it still works and comes up on ANT+

So I decided I’d give converting the shifters a go… I got a pair of Veloce 9sp shifters from the late 90’s which still have the pointy hoods

And then pulled out the index ratchet ring from the RH shifter, and swapped it in. Went in with no problem!