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After a brief discussion about the new Gazzetta's boring looking fork, LukeyP offered to sell me his for good money and a couple of days ago this arrived:
I was pleasantly surprised with the finish as Luke has sent me a message concerning how, having packed the frame, the damage to the paint was worse than he initially thought. Gazzetta paint is piss poor and it's actually not that bad with the non drive side being pretty much fine. Came fitted with a Cane Creek branded Tange LAV-82 headset.
As this is to be a pretty student-y, poverty spec build, I took a lot of parts from my universally loathed Pre Cursa. The RD2s went in with a 48t Gebhardt ring and I also planned to use the 103mm Sugino BB. Three years of daily abuse and neglect in all weather had left the unit(still spinning buttery smooth) in shite basically and was well stuck.
Gross.
A few taps from the gentle persuader saw it come away finally and revealed a whole lot of pitting:
Still structurally and functionally fine, I gave it a once over and in it jolly well went.
Turbo for 20 beans in the Kinoko sale, knew i needed something more fitting and less racer-ish than the tatty BeOne I had been using.
Wheelset for now is DP18s to formulas which have served me very well so far. The Gazzetta fork ends have the little nubs for keeping your wheel in but the track nuts are too big in diameter and reach over the nubs, making cranking the axle down evenly basically impossible. Anyone ran into this issue before? Smaller nuts would cure it but seems a bit strange/ silly. You can kind of see what i mean in this supplementary image:
Almost STS on first fitting, sweet. Small spacer for now. Check the near knackered bolts on the Thomson the div I bought it off never told me about. Anyone know a good place to get a ti replacement kit? Onwards and upwards.
Test fit with BeOne saddle, alright but not quite right.
Better:
To come: Thomson Inline, risers with an ID that can actually fit bar ends. Either Nitto RB010s or the other two similar ones from Nitto, want to have a relaxed drop bullhorn to interchange. Have FSA Veros and 70mm Deda Zero in the post for another project, might try them on this first though.
Down the road: Ellipses would be nice, coming from the Pre Cursa I'll have to see how I get on with the extra pudge of steel.