Vitus 992 project

[zerogravitas]

Hilarious

A rare RB troll sighting.

Edit; seems all the pictures are broken, so thanks at least for making me notice that!

 

[Bultaco370]

A totally ridiculous thing to say, I would love to see your junk frameset so please try to fix the pictures.

 

[zerogravitas]

Pictures are now all fixed.

Here are a couple of extras from some old rides.





I have some modifciations and changes to make to the 992 shortly. As mentioned I now have the Vitus seatpost fitted, with a white Flite. I tried a Turbo but it's depth didn't look sleek enough. I've also got some Vitus branded Look F-Arc pedals in yellow that are a great fit; they needed some tlc to touch up some paint chips as you can see but they came up well.



I want to change the handlebar and stem - I have a Mavic bar and matching stem I've polished and resprayed the logo onto. I have a dilemma whether to use the Mavic stem or an interesting Modolo two-part stem with a funky yellow top plate. I'm leaning toward the Modolo at the moment as it matches the yellow detailing. I had to cut a filler bit of rubber as the supplied rubber pad left a gap with the bar fitted.







The finishing touches will be replacing the Modolo Kronos plasticy shifters with some Mavic/Simplex 820s and some Mavic brakes when I get them.

 

[Bultaco370]

What a pile of old junk.....oh sorry, got mixed up for a moment. That is actually stunning! Love the Mavic components.

 

[gridno27]

OK - but I never saw a modolo Q-Even stem labeled as a MAVIC before ... I don't know who produced the MAVIC stems but for them. I suspect 3ttt - it's looks like a 3ttt Record 84 sibling.

 

[zerogravitas]

Oh yeah, to be clear they are two different stems, the Mavic one is a 365 and the Modolo one is a Q Race. I just like the look of it with the yellow detail on the bike.

 

[zerogravitas]

Holy thread resurrection Batman. Jumped back on this project now the weather is finally improving!

First up I dusted the frame and replaced the cheap replacement 'Vitus 992' blue fork stickers I had on before. These new ones are proper foil stickers and a very good match to the originals. The downtube sticker is original as it was in great condition still.



Here we have a pair of super condition Mavic 810/Simplex made shifters. The Modolo Kronos were very light but felt so plasticy in the hand I had to change them.



Thanks to @gridno27 I have a pair of these Mavic 440 brakes fitted. I have the rubber Allen caps for full aeroness once the build is finished.
I repainted the Mavic logos on these, including those on the brake pads; these pads are Kool-Stop replacements again, just masked with a stencil and yellow sprayed through.



Pedals on. I know this is the slightly later Vitus logo but needs must.



Perforated repro Flite on Vitus aero post.



Finally here are the bars and stem, Modolo Q Race two part stem, with Mavic bars. I can't resist the flash of yellow on this stem over the plain silver Mavic ones I have.



More soon!