• I've recently acquired an italianate whip on the ebay for £11.50 (frame only, no forks)

    The frame number (107.) is stamped on the rear dropouts - which are campag 1010 or whatever you call them.

    There's a little ridge to locate the band on D/T shifters, and the rear mech cable routing is a stop on the d/t around the radius of the chainring, then you run a cable outer up to another stop behind the bb. there's a band-on front mech (also early 70's campag) - but I've no idea how the cable would have been routed to that...

    I posted these pics on the Classic Rendezvous forum - those chaps seriously know their onions - I was advised that if there are cable stops for rear mech only it must be a custom UK time trial frame - especially with all that drilium. The lug filing shows it to be the work of a high end builder, and the 3-digit serial makes it likely to be Ron Cooper - I called Ron this afternoon and fired over some photos so we shall see how things pan out on that...

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