Berretto Track

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I'm no expert but the leather shop which I bought the dye say leathers are usually dyed with this kind of stuff.
I've had dye rub in small amounts from new saddles so I guess it's a normal occurrence for blackened soft leather saddles to bleed a little.
Who knows till you try it eh? :)

Tortured myself with the rest of this disc. ohgod :(
If i can recommend anything, just buy a new one. Cleaning old glue sucks.

Ended up scraping as much as I could with the screwdriver and carefully using acetone with scotch pad from the underside only (so it couldn't run onto the disc surface). Then I sanded the whole lot with 240 followed by 400 followed by Autosol followed by washing the filth from the disc with grease and wax remover.
Nothing perfect but the result is pretty damn good I think.

Almost like a new one!

Next, the axles.
This was challenge because there is 0 information anywhere and few pictures to reference. Internet, I am disappoint.

You can see here the disc is not dished and the bearing races are offset toward the fixed side.

I roughly measured the exposed sides ~24mm fixed and ~11mm freewheel side. Bearing races are both the same distance from the outside edge.. so a ~13mm offset.

To center the wheel I'll needed to shift it across.
I also found a picture of someone selling a disc with spare axles. By the looks of it, the drive side cones must stack as compact as possible. There is a thinner 17mm hexnut on one end but the standard nut on the other.

I've used a mix of the Campy and EAI bits to create the shortest stack possible and spacers from the 126mm skewer to build the 13mm of extra on the other.

I had a brain fade and miscalculated the offset as 8mm at first, these pictures here are with a 5mm spacer instead of the 10mm spacer...my bad. I have since fixed my errors :). Will fix pics later.

Interestingly I couldn't remove the bearing retainers from the disc (wasn't sure how) but it wasn't necessary. With the axles removed I filled them with grease and slipped the bearings in easy enough. (I wish I had a picture but hands too greasy to handle the camera).

Success!

Driveside.

Non (with thread cover)

Stretching the tub unglued:

I am every so slightly worried about the 23mm tub clearing the bridge.. I used to run 23mm clinchers but this is a bit fatter. We will see.

Whichever idiot used this disc before me had his brakes too low and they have slightly marred just inside the disc surface. Going to pick up a paint pen to fix it up a little sometime.

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are you going to ride that on the streets? What about tubular on rear?
I have tubular wheels for every day use, but I just wanna to hear other opinion. ;)
And stem-what is that?
bike was and will be gorgeus!

^ Thanks man
Street isn't intended but the reason I went with the Criterium tub instead of the paper thin Record was for those days I feel like being silly and having a spin on the bitumen.
I don't need to skid to stop quickly so not afraid of tub on the street except for the cost of puncture.
Stem is no-name parts bin thing I stripped and polished. Lucky find, it's nice.

Updated pics properly spaced.

That disc doesn't look half the nightmare mine nearly was, mine seems to have a wooden or very dense foam rim!
I didn't bother completely removing the old glue, just made sure there were no huge lumps, there is very little hop in my tyre and the whole wheel is only a tiny bit off true.

Yeah it's the same deal, weird foam construction with some kind of plastic skin. Don't expect it to take kindly to pot holes!

Feeling this, gonna look real nice built up.
Really liking the progression shots.

Still waiting for the replacement decals but finished this up yesterday.

Chopped the steerer a little with 5mm spacer in there.
Bars are Soma Highway 1's wrapped in cotton (helps cover the cable routing) and again in some leather tape.

Put in the solid axles and gave the Shamal a light sand with 1600 and polish with Autosol. Not perfect but she'll do.

... and a couple quick shots!

saddle looks great I think:

full body shot:

Will do a full shoot sometime soon in full sun and somewhere nicer than my back yard.

Reckon I'll get a threaded 650 fork sometime and lo-pro this frame. High BB makes it a perfect candidate. A damn nice ride with 700s and ahead as it is.

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Straight to porn. Beautiful work!

absolutely beauty!!!

so much love!

Does BB have any drop? looks like it's very high.

Doesn't look like much does it! Upper limit of UCI legal: 30cm.

great thread, nice commentary and very good looking pics. you shouldn't have been so hard on yourself in the first post about documenting)))

bike is perfect of course)))

Wow.... Beauty!

Stonking bike. I might suggest that it deserves better bars. But that would be nit-picking of the highest order.

It would yeah, because it's no such thing as 'better', different is the right word. But those hway1's are mega!

Yo!

I think there is something about having Soma bars on an Italian build makes one consider different bars.. but I think they are lookers and get me into perfect position, I couldn't really do anything deeper.
I would love to see a quill on here with cinelli/3T pistas but ultimately, why downgrade?

Took it to the boards last week, super happy with how it rides. Disc is crazy on the banking! Didn't get much of a session so no pics. Will do next week. Loved it. We are lucky to have such a world class indoor Velodrome here.
Bike got a lot of attention there... for the right reasons I hope. :)

Call me picky (I am).. so a few aesthetic changes came this week.
Wasn't feeling the fat post so much, needed an aero post. Finally managed to source one of the nicer clamp style Campag posts in the right length. Happy! No record, just Chorus. Not a bad thing, though. I don't rate the carbon record top cap on the headset so I swapped it for the Chorus top cap. Matchy match and yay no more carbon; a much cleaner look I think.
OH yeah, new rainbow are coming so looking forward to cleaning those up.

Some boring pics of the changes:

My poor grass :(

Thank you for the compliments btw.

Nice shim there. But you must thread that steerer now. That ahead has no place on that bike. Needs quill!

I wish I had boards near me. Alas...

Aero looks much nicer. do you feel the difference (speed wise) having the disc? stunning bike btw! You lucky buster.

Yeah I gotta shim. Reynolds OS tubes, 29.4 diameter. The other post is campy Olympus.. MTB group is it? Shim looks ok I think anyway :)

Edit:
Hard to tell about speed, the old 90mm deep rear was already a pretty quick setup but I didn't take it to the track. Nothing to compare it to.