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I think I read the older 70s Ofmega stuff had slightly different taper, but the later 80s and onwards stuff like this Mistral is standard ISO fit.

Thanks, that's the first italian bike I've owned that has such a common sense system :)

After staring with revulsion on every ride at the ultrasonically cleaned (not by me) seatpost on my Max Tommasini, that had its shiny chrome finish replaced by a grey so dull Nigel from accounts rocked it as his midweek underpant colour of choice, I could take no more and had to replace it with a shiny one that matched the bikes chrome seat stays and
seatlug. I can sleep soundly at night now.

Also managed to source an Ofmega Mistral crank for the bike. Always liked the look of these, gives a sense of forward motion and I can pretend I had enough power to melt snd warp the crank like that;)

And I made the classic mistake of buying the crank without even considering what BB it needed, I had 3 different length square taper italian thread bb's in my parts bin so one of those would fit surely.....wrong. Turns out these cranks need 118.5 length axle which is longer than anything in my stash. So big thanks to Wayne at Pedal Pedlar who couriered me over a special Sunday delivery Ofmega Master bottom bracket so I could get the crank fitted to bike before the end of the weekend, and I just managed to fit it and take
a few picks before sunset. Thanks Wayne!

It's Columbus SLX New so figure it's early to mid 90s?

I'm not familiar with Cinelli serial numbers, but if they're un-Italian and logical for a change, and some of the numbers on the BB shell actually correspond to years then maybe 95:)

Thanks, nothing wrong with Daytona levers tho, they operate just like Chorus bit maybe a tad heavier. These were barely used and I got them for a fraction of the cost decent 10 speed Chorus shifters goes for, so was a no brainer.

Managed to sneak in another Italian before year end, Cinelli Supercorsa with 20 speed Campag.

All I can think of when I see those saddles is the concertina card/paper bit over the chocs in a box of After Eight mints.

Thanks, as for the seatpost grrr that's a thing that really grinds gears. I couldn't tell from the original listing pics but it's been ultrasonically cleaned. I hate people that do this, cos what they've done is not clean it, no, they've stripped all the chrome off and fucked the look it, that's what they've done, fucked it. Stop with this shit.

Yeah, I love all Max forks but the straight bladed ones are really distinctive and look great.

I've got some straight Max lugged fork blades I had made for my ti Merckx last year after Columbus decided to re-release Max, but think the original one piece all chrome ones still look the best, straight or curved versions.

Typical trolling by the weather gods, build up a shiny chrome bike on Saturday and there's then zero sun all weekend, only coming out again when everyone has to go back to work on Monday.

All the chrome deserves a sunshine pic, and as we not likely to see much of the big orange orb in the sky over the coming months, I grabbed a pic with its sibling Tommasini in full shiny get up.

Thanks. I don't have any spare black clinchers, but I've got some classic Open Pave tubs so we can test that hypothesis:)

Sorry for late reply, but just finished buulding it and got a quick snap before dark.

With all that chrome it had to be a silver groupset build to match the silver wheels, and had to be gumwall tyres. Shame there's going to be no sunshine till midweek so shiny sunshine pics will have to wait.

Parts are a mish mash of what I had already including the stem which I'd prefer was silver, but I'm not going to bother changing it now. Mostly Chorus group tho FD and brakes are newer generation ones.

@ArthurDent so you finished the Somec? Didn't you have a C40 in progress too?

@ArthurDent haha, OK, Tommasini's are defintely something :)

@damskodonny ha! Even if they did a shìny silver version it would still defintely be a NO from me:)

I'm perfectly happy with front derailleurs and cassettes smaller than chainrings thanks very much:)

Hehe, I think this will be hard to part with.

Don't suppose you heard any news on your stolen bikes being recovered? Only saw that news recently, such a bummer, the Stockton especially was a real labour of love, and so distinctive so hopefully it will show up somewhere and be returned to you.

Thanks, it's a 60cm frame

As Britney said, oops I've done it again.

Max x chrome x rad colour = my kryponite, I am weak knee'd, weak willed and utterly powerless to its charms.

Missing patches of paint from top tube but otherwise good condition, love the colour and all the chrome, up to and including the seat lug. One piece full chrome Max fork also hot as.

Also has weird rear derailleur cabling that goes through the drive side chainstay, out the bottom of the chainstay, along and through the chainstay cable guide before going through the bottom bracket, which I've not seen before.

Contacted Tommasini and they replied saying its an early Velocista from 1987, so the first year Columbus Max was available.

I've got a minty clean set of 8 speed shiny Campag Shamals that have been gathering dust, and so as I had 8 speed shifters and crank too, that decides the least cost build route. Arrived so quick I not got all parts yet but will be shiny silver campag all the way and should have all parts needed in next week to build it up, yay!

Ah OK you're nearly there then. Shifters always were the most spendy bit, tho if u can find good set they'll last.

Yes front derailleurs are much more reasonable price wise, Campag do the 10 speed era triple ones and the Racing T one from 8/9 speed era, but sure that will work fine on 10 speed too.

I keep hearing about the bottom falling out the vintage market, but 10 speed triple Campag stuff in Chorus and above is still bloody spendy in my experience, cost me a fortune sorting mine, tho admittedly the crank and shifters were NOS. The Chorus and up long cage rear derailleur was the extra hard to find part, I couldn't even find one in UK and had to get a Record one shipped from Germany at considerable expense.

Good luck on the search tho and hope you can find what you need.

I'm pretty sure you don't need a extra width bb so just the same 102mm width one that fits those 9/10 speed square taper double cranks.

Haha guilty as charged on grubby chains. Its a running theme, all mine get ridden but carpeted upstairs 3rd floor flat with no garden or balcony makes cleaning oily crap a hassle. And I've been told off before, apparently washing bike in the bath/shower is not acceptable, who knew.

Cheers, yep its a tig lugless Columbus Max one.

Bars are 3ttt Competizione.

..and unmistakable Mario Martini Somec, who must have been tripping off his goard when he did this,. must be over 10 colours, every time I try and count I get distracted by a star burst and have to start over.

Thanks @Ordinata and @Kimmo. I don't think there's enough wild paint jobs on current bikes, most companies playing it safe and dull. Not that I can afford a modern 10k bike, but if I could I'd never dream of a white or black one, dream bigger.

And apols for pics of the oldies, but as requested some more pics of the Tommasini.

Don't know if none, some or all of these qualify to the hhsrb council, maybe a bit too vintage-y. But before the summer that never got going fucks off for 6 months I took a pic of my shiny Italians with their shiny shoes.

Thanks Andy. Cheers for info. I've got this Mercatone Uno Medeghini Zucchini jersey with Pinarello branding that I guess is from 93 then. Just checked the rider roster that year and see MDVP's dad Adri was on the team then.

I know this era Dario Pegoretti was building Pinarello's for Big Mig at Banesto, would Dario have built exclusively for Banesto or did he work.for other teams?

There is serial number info on frame, anyone kn0w if modern mega corp golf club Pinarello have records of their cool old steel bikes? My experience of Italian builders record keeping is that its iffy.

Better than that, I'm taking the whole day off work to play on it :)...watch it piss down with rain.