Roger de Vaeminck Colnago rebuild

stringfellow1946 · Nov 18, 2014

I'm about to start my next project a 1980 RDV Colnago rebuild.
I know RDV rode for the Boule d'Or Team in 1980 & they rode Colnago Frames that year so I assume that these were only made that year?
This one is stamped No8 on the rear dropout, I've no idea how many were produced but looks like this is an early one?
Does anyone know what make & model saddle, Bars, stem & rims the Boule d'Or team used?
I almost certain I will use Super Record groupset on this (only because I have a complete groupset here already) BUT maybe it should be Novo record??
Any help would be very much appreciated as I'm unable to find out anything about the Boule d'Or Team.

Thanks
Chris

Flandria · Nov 18, 2014

Don't know if Boule d'or used 3ttt, but this cockpit would be pretty awesome, no

?

http://www.2dehands.be/fietsen/fietsond ... 88332.html

torqueless · Nov 18, 2014

Re:

I almost certain I will use Super Record groupset on this (only because I have a complete groupset here already) BUT maybe it should be Novo record??

I wouldn't lose sleep over it. I think It's all pretty much interchangeable? I can't imagine continental pro teams using anything but SR by 1980, and Roger, being the star, doubtless got first pickings, but, certainly a few years earlier, if a rider wanted, say, a chainring with an esoteric tooth-count for a certain stage, and the mechanic had an NR one, rather than an SR one, I doubt any rider, maybe not even famously finicky Eddy, would be throwing a tantrum about it.

Even as late as 1980 there may have been riders who felt better with NR steel rather than SR alloy/titanium, or superstitious veteran riders with some 'lucky' component they had been using since 1972 or something.. who knows?

colnagolover · Nov 18, 2014

Hi Chris,

A couple of links that may help:

http://www.biciclassiche.com/2012/06/la ... -1980.html

http://www.raydobbins.com/misc/Colnago_Catalog/08.jpg

but if you look in Cycling Archives (http://www.cyclingarchives.com/beeldfic ... did=119184) it definitely looks like a Cinelli stem on the bike in the picture whereas the stem her (http://www.cyclingarchives.com/beeldfic ... eldid=3936) looks like 3ttt.

Good hunting - look forward to seeing the finished product

Steve

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