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@dan
put new stuff on old bike and ride it. It's the way forward. Downtube levers are shit for climbing, or riding in a group, or anything really, heavy stuff is crap too. I can understanding wanting to resurrect a beautiful frame, but worrying about which year the brake levers are from or spending a year putting together a nuovo record group from the same year is just silly.
I don't understand the obsession with period correct-ness with bikes that you actually own (in a museum? Fine...) - the people who seem most obsessed with it seem to be the people who ride their bikes the least anyway and therefore not worth listening to :)
Met a guy last night (I think he's on here as dangermouse?) who had the most incredible Moser frame, built with 11spd Super Record, fizik saddle, dt 585 rims etc etc and it looked AMAZING. Bet it rode beautifully too.