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@onar
Hi!
This will be my first restoration project; I've had many bikes before but never stripped one down completely like this. A good friend gave me the bike, bought new in 93, and told me I should pay him as much as it takes for me not to feel ashamed for taking it off him :D
Help me out with valuing it so that I don't rip him off completely :P
This is what I want to make it look like:
...A poor mans Cinelli Supercorsa in other words, bar the red pedals of course :D
Do you think this bike is worth the effort of respraying, possibly chroming etc, or should I just buy a lookalike frame/bike instead? It's a relatively common look, so they crop up on ebay now and then starting from about £300. I enjoy the tinkering of course, but I wouldn't want to spend too much time polishing a turd so to speak :)
Tube stickers say "Made in Italy", and "Columbus speciali trafilati, acciaio CrMo, GARA Tre tubi". Brakes are Shimano Exage 500EX, derailers 300EX...
P.S. Apologies for the large images, if this isn't something you do at this forum let me know and I'll reduce their size.