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WA is a hell of a long way from VIC/NSW ;)
Dave: Just to confirm, this is a steel frame yeah? I think GT only made the Edge/Force in steel for road. When/how long are you in Melb for? Happy to grab it from you at the end of your time here if that works for you (and Jase drops out for some reason)
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No probs, he should be waking up soon ;)
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Hey Dave. I'm in Melbourne and will gladly take it off your hands if Jase doesn't.
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Hey, my bikes!
I was assured the Concorde is gold plating, not "gold", but until I put an XRF onto it to confirm I won't know for sure. I'll hit part of it with some thinners to see if it's cromovelato first. It's certainly not copper/brass etc, the lustre is all wrong. Funny thing is, the entire frame is gold under the paint, there's a chip on the HT showing gold, the FD braze on also.
The seatstay caps are panto'd 'Jubileum', so it's an anniversary edition of some kind and the gold indicates a 50th. The Classic Rendezvous mailing list and an ex Concorde employee from Weight Weenies forums know nothing about it.
The frame's currently being built with a lightly used 6400STI group. The Andretton is also on the build list, but my Hetchins comes first.
Hetchins Super Special by ah_blake, on Flickr -
I'd also like to know a little more on the history of these. I bought a complete track bike a while back and when I removed the bartape the stickers appeared along with the cool aero profile on the tops. It was quite a nice surprise.
These are mine, and There's one other pair on flickr with the sweet matching Crystem Blue.
Mancesco: How did you go getting them into that stem? Mine were in a Nitto Pearl and I had to flex it open with a large flathead screwdriver and carefully work them out. Doable, but non-ideal.
And collected! Thanks Dave.
And rebuilt as an SS:
GT Edge rear 3 quarter