Soemone on a facebook group seems to know my frame and wrote me this "It's a factory-frame. Lugs are Everest investment cast. The lugs are unworked and out of the box. Dropouts are plugin, not much to do other than chop the stays off and stick them in. The finish was used by several Taiwanese...
This frame was given in March as a present to my bike tech because I have too many frames and since it was craked because of a lousy chris king headset in the head tube and went to repair , he will make of it his own build since he owns plenty of interesting bikes.
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I was looking for something unusual but after looking over and over ebay and watching rusted out , damaged frames, I felt on something very unusal of very high quality outstanding craftsmanship, it is a Tange Prestige frame from the mid late 90's . And it weights 1,95 kilos not bad...
Other possibilities are this 2023 Custom Co-Motion Espresso mid reach Chris King Whisky #7 road plus, TRP 957 with Columbus Max and Life is cheaper than the Cinelli and of much higher quality. Another interesting frame is the Racer Rosa road bike frame, hand-made in Italy Columbus Life steel...
it is made in Italy not in Belgium but a for a Tig welded frame with basic quality welds and nothing extraordinary in terms of quality with mid range quality tubing , it is expensive. Then there is this Brian Rourke Reynolds 853 Road Frame 58.5 ctc. which can be a good alternative, or this NOS...
So today was the shopping spree for the Cube project
3TTT Zepp XL Lacquered Blue stem
3TTT Zepp 31.8 oversized bar
Zipp404wheels
FSA Orbit IS2 semi integrated headset
FSA Carbon Pro 46-38
Shimano Dura Ace FD7800
Cavallo Marino was producing some very nice quality frames with nice paint jobs. Its craftsmanship was oustanding regarding paint and I have to say that I love the paintjob on my Veneto.
Here is the most complete topic about Easton Aluminium and another interesting topic on Aluminium 7005 vs 6061aluminum topic. Also Scandium is only available in 7005 aluminium and Easton Ultralite available as 6069 aluminium. The 6069 T6 alumnium will need a heat treating treatment to regain...