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Now that's a warm welcome right there! Cheers :)

That's interesting, I translated it on dict.cc and it translates to the german word for trigger, as in the trigger of a gun.

I created a (preliminary) build thread with more info. Don't want to hijack this thread... so here you go: https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/285264/

Hello everybody!

I'm fairly new to this forum. I've been regularly checking the forum for about a year and created an account in January but only recently I came to the conclusion that it was time to give back to the community, rather than just being a passive by-stander.

So let's do this! This is gonna be my first build thread. I noticed that quite a few people on here have a soft spot for eccentric paint jobs like fluro, pink, fadez etc. So I'll just give you a bit of all of these :)

But first things first:
Last December I bought a Colnago Dream with an almost complete Campagnolo Record Titanium 8speed group on it. I bought it mainly for the gruppo as I'm not particularly interested in Aluminium frames. Ever since I got into road bikes (which is not even 2 years ago, mind me) I dreamed of a build where I would go all out on. So when I got the chance to buy the Colnago Dream for a reasonable price I knew I had to get it in order to put the group on a frame of my liking at some point in time.

Last week I finally found a frame which checked all the boxes for me and which is (imho) worthy of carrying the Campa Record that has been eagerly waiting in my glass cabinet. The frame is an Olmo Scatto made out of New SLX tubing. The frame is in mint condition with just one paint chip at the seat post clamp. I bought the complete bike for 425€ with a complete shimano 600 Tricolor in mint condition. Luckily, a friend of mine was looking for this exact group so we split the price and I ended up paying 270€ for the frame which seems fair to me.

I have to warn you though, the gruppo and the frame are not even at the same place right now so this will be a slow process. I would have started the thread at a later point but @MCamb asked me a question about it in the ebay-thread and i didn't want to hijack the thread with my personal projects...

So, what I have planned so far:

• Strip the frame of its parts
  
• Mount the Campagnolo Record Parts that I already have
  
  • maybe get a matching record seatpost at some point, until then, a campy athena will have to do
    
• Put on the Campagnolo Atlanta 1996 Wheels that came with the Colnago Dream (on a side note, these have 28 spokes which makes them quite rare if I'm correct)
  
  • maybe get shamals at some point, but that's something for the distant future
    
• Decide on tires. The Atlanta wheels are made for really narrow 19c tires but I read 23c will fit. Can anybody confirm this? I was thinking about some Vittoria gumwalls, not sure though whether this would be too classic for such an in-your-face paint scheme.
  
• Decide on a saddle. I got a San Marco Laser that I could refurbish. I upholstered quite a few saddles and became quite good at it. Alternatively, I could buy a Flite Ti, always loved them but never had one on any of my bikes thus far.
  
• Decide on pedals. Clipless would be period correct but I'm really used to toe clips and don't really like the idea of being dependent on bicycle shoes to ride it.
  
• Decide whether i'll be using the 3ttt evol stem + 3ttt bars the bike came with or whether I should use the ITM Gocchia + bars from the Colnago Dream.
  
• Decide on bar tape.
  
• There's probably a few more points I haven't thought of yet.
  
  

That is it so far. I'm happy to hear your comments and input!

So without further ado (as if there hasn't been plenty ado yet) here are some photos:
Please excuse the poor quality, the pictures of the Scatto are still from the ebay auction and the photos of the parts are taken with my phone:

Cheers

Shipping seems worse than it actually is. In the article description it says 50$ (44€) within the EU, which is still quite a lot but not as exaggerated as the 89€.
Price went up to 162€ which together with the shipping is above my limit of 200€. Was hoping for a bargain. But I'll pass this time, also since I'm occupied with Uni work. Plus I bought an Olmo Scatto in mint condition last week. It's in fluro-pink and purple and has mad fadez. Gonna build it up with Campa Record Titanium 8 speed. I can open a build thread if there's interest but it's gonna be a rather slow building process due to lack of time...

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24h to go, seems like this could be a bargain. Can anyone tell me more about the FMX tubing? From what I found out it's custom made for Fondriest and the frame weights about 1,9kg. Mix between SLX and EL tubes (with the oversized tt) maybe?
http://www.ebay.de/itm/222079396238?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

p.s. the steerer seems to be too long, so probably not the original fork...

Wow! The colnago master gen 2 is stunning! Possible dibs for the unlikely case that I can afford this...