Brian Rourke 653

I have a practically brand new set of Dura Ace 7800 hubs on Mavic Open Pro CD rims, would look lovely on this, and give you the ability to run 10 speed- the best number of speeds.

What do you think about campag? Im thinking of selling my gorgeous 90's athena complete groupset. You interested?

From the Ribble? What's going on instead? Are you going to slather it in SRAM?

I sure am! Gonne be so much more comfortable while riding through the south of france

What do you think about campag? Im thinking of selling my gorgeous 90's athena complete groupset. You interested?

XH PM'd you

I sure am! Gonne be so much more comfortable while riding through the south of france

is it wrong that i'm sort of tempted to switch my SRAM to Jose so we can match

Aww, BFFs!

I think you should

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/NOS-Campagnolo-Rear-Dropout-Adjusters-Screw-/00/s/ODAwWDQ0OQ==/$%28KGrHqVHJBkE+Nlj6g4,BP6O6bgMsQ%7E%7E60_12.JPG

or

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/NOS-NIP-Campagnolo-Rear-Dropout-Adjusters-/00/$%28KGrHqJ,%21igE4uwy%29I9oBOOvdTN%21og%7E%7E0_12.JPG

?

first ones.

cool...will they be the right length?
seem to come in 2 sizes...
http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Campagnolo-Rear-Dropout-Adjuster-Screws-NOS-/00/s/MTA3MVgxNjAw/$%28KGrHqZ,%21qME88f7,knyBPjqCGtb-Q%7E%7E60_12.JPG

I wouldn't take the short ones then.

easy..

short for these (yours)

long for these (not yours)

Long ones will stick out too far and risk getting bent or worse broken off in the dropout.
Basically you want the chrome bits to be pretty much flush out the rear of the dropout.

Also, the originals would more likely have been the chrome ones rather than the black ones.

cheers for the help chaps, ordered the short ones...

Also gonna fit this shiny Chorus headset today:

Aw, shiny!! :D

Go campag - as well as looking infinitely better without those crap cable outers on display, the brifters feel better and more comfortable - best of all they are 100% serviceable and upgradeable - I bought '97 9spd chorus brifters from unit lost for £25 - 2 allen keys later all the parts laid out on the kitchen table ready for cleaning - everythings made of metal and built to last - replacement g-springs (£1.50 ) and a bit of light greasing and back on they go.
So smooth and nice I thought I'd treat myself to some new rubber hoods - so much more satifsfactory an experience than shimano's planned obsolescense -
If you want to go 10speed you can get an upgrade kit. I got all my spare parts from Whiskers - they have everything there you just need to get the spares catalogue from campag webpage and quote the part refs.

Headset fitted. Lovely chaps at Micycle let me use all their pro tools, grease, etc etc and asked for nothing. Great LBS. +1 to them at every opportunity.

Other actions:

-Went over some parts of the chrome with some scrunched alu foil to remove specs of rust (under brake bridge, under fork crown)

-Cleaned inside the BB shell and seat tube

-Touched up some minor paint chips under the BB shell with white nail varnish.

Lushness.

That's a lovely frame!
IMO you should have a nice DA 7400 groupset with downtube shifters because these are unbreakables. If you want an example, here is my peugeot from the same era and the same 653 tubing with 7400 groupset
http://velospace.org/node/42046

That is nice...

Almost 100% that I'm going for full Campag Athena on this, however...

I'm thinking white gear/brake cable outers?

I would have gone for blue cables with white guidoline and black turbo saddle.

I would have gone for blue cables with white guidoline and black turbo saddle.

"guidoline" you mean bartape?

yeah sorry! I thought guidoline was also used in english, obviously not...