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@Blakey
Hey, my bikes!
I was assured the Concorde is gold plating, not "gold", but until I put an XRF onto it to confirm I won't know for sure. I'll hit part of it with some thinners to see if it's cromovelato first. It's certainly not copper/brass etc, the lustre is all wrong. Funny thing is, the entire frame is gold under the paint, there's a chip on the HT showing gold, the FD braze on also.
The seatstay caps are panto'd 'Jubileum', so it's an anniversary edition of some kind and the gold indicates a 50th. The Classic Rendezvous mailing list and an ex Concorde employee from Weight Weenies forums know nothing about it.
The frame's currently being built with a lightly used 6400STI group. The Andretton is also on the build list, but my Hetchins comes first.
Hetchins Super Special by ah_blake, on Flickr