Hello!
So last friday I saw a bike listed on ebay, pick up only, and put a cheeky bid in expecting it to go for a lot more... it didn't and I ended up going accross the country to pick it up... not what I wanted to do with my saturday but I got a bike out of it.
As I'm new, a wee introduction...
I used to go mountian biking with my mates - but found on the flat stuff I could leave them al behind and when we got off road... well I just wasn't very good - my hard tale mountain bike became a commuter clocking up thousands of miles, being used and abused and getting steadily thinner tyres.
I saw an old frame on gumtree and picked it up with the aim of building a slightly quicker, racier bike. That plan slightly changed when I realised it would be cheaper to pick up either a different bike or a doner than all the individual parts... hence the ebay bid....
so I go and get the bike - an awesome looking raleigh special products division frame in 531c - a wee bit big for me but all the bikes i've ever owned are apparently too big for me (ive short legs and a v. long body), vento g3 wheel set and a box of the parts for it....
he meantioned that the older parts were in the box as well, so I figure there's a pile of old rubbish in there....
and get it back home to discover enough parts to make two bikes up - and almost all of it being campagnolo parts, some older, some newer - with the odd more modern shimano ultrga (?sp) breaks and the like....
so my question is...
what's the best way to ID old campag stuff? (looked though old catalogs and a lot of it looks quite similar at different time periods!)
there are numbers on everything but how do you decipher it?
and how do you decide what to stick on the bike? (as I write this I figure I should probably take pictures so you can see!)
So last friday I saw a bike listed on ebay, pick up only, and put a cheeky bid in expecting it to go for a lot more... it didn't and I ended up going accross the country to pick it up... not what I wanted to do with my saturday but I got a bike out of it.
As I'm new, a wee introduction...
I used to go mountian biking with my mates - but found on the flat stuff I could leave them al behind and when we got off road... well I just wasn't very good - my hard tale mountain bike became a commuter clocking up thousands of miles, being used and abused and getting steadily thinner tyres.
I saw an old frame on gumtree and picked it up with the aim of building a slightly quicker, racier bike. That plan slightly changed when I realised it would be cheaper to pick up either a different bike or a doner than all the individual parts... hence the ebay bid....
so I go and get the bike - an awesome looking raleigh special products division frame in 531c - a wee bit big for me but all the bikes i've ever owned are apparently too big for me (ive short legs and a v. long body), vento g3 wheel set and a box of the parts for it....
he meantioned that the older parts were in the box as well, so I figure there's a pile of old rubbish in there....
and get it back home to discover enough parts to make two bikes up - and almost all of it being campagnolo parts, some older, some newer - with the odd more modern shimano ultrga (?sp) breaks and the like....
so my question is...
what's the best way to ID old campag stuff? (looked though old catalogs and a lot of it looks quite similar at different time periods!)
there are numbers on everything but how do you decipher it?
and how do you decide what to stick on the bike? (as I write this I figure I should probably take pictures so you can see!)