Current Projects chat and miscellany

RE 'British thread' - Just measure the size of the bottom bracket. It will probably be standard. I doubt it will be italian. See here: http://www.sheldonbrown.com/gloss_bo-z.html

Also you are usually best off searching sheldon via google, not in the site itself.

Re Stainless steel lugs: It doesn't effect anything other than aesthetics. If you clean and polish them they will come up like mirrored chrome. So if you choose to respray, do this first and then mask them off.

As I said, I think it's a real shame to loose what looks like a unique colour. IMO the frame has a lot of cool details that will be lost forever with a respray.

But your frame, your choice, your money.

heads to retrobike

Looks more like a press on metal sleeve rather than stainless lugs.

Still, worth cleaning up.