Recent content by jason1788

Love it. I wouldn't spray it, just touch in the paint where it's missing and leave it looking semi-obvious. It's all patina. Those wheels are lovely especially with 18/24 spokes. I've got Shamals on my Pinarello but I do worry about the 16-spoke rear wheel. Just as well I don't have much power...

Been playing around with rear cassettes. The bike came with a hotch-potch of so-called "super-shift" cogs, with the hooked teeth and some plain reversible uniglide cogs. Colour? Supposedly gold finish but really a faded yellow chromate on some of them. Teeth? 13-23 vs the catalog 13-25. Not very...

In the last couple of months I've rebuilt the wheels. All were astonishingly good condition but I stripped it all so I could clean up the rims. The original finish is a matt clear anodize which is terrible - it soaks up dirt and is hard to clean. So I cleaned up the anodizing without removing...

interested to see how it comes out. Similar to my own Full-Pro S (1984) build I'm doing now - that has a AX / EX mix which is handy as I don't like the look of the AX brakes & rear mech, or the aero hoods.

I can't believe it's one year on since I started this. Anyway the frame is more or less finished now. I decided to clearcoat over the decals which is probably a mistake, as I had to layer it on pretty thick to allow for some cutting & buffing. Regardless I went through the clear in a few places...

Re: Re: ah, this does make sense. Thinking more carefully about the timeline, I sold mine in '79 so I must have bought it in around 77. A quick study of your old catalogues (which I should have done first!) confirms that the blocky font that I had is from that time. I don't recall a white band...

Re: Re: I didn't know that. The one I had must have been a late one as it had what I assume are later decals (blocky sans serif font) like the blue complete bike on the first page of this thread. Pretty much all I have seen have what I assume are earlier decals (like yours Peachy). I'd almost...

Re: 1981 Claud Butler Colstar - DuraAce #035210 Congratulations sir, what a superb story and stunning end result! My tiny collection has no British bikes, let alone a Claud, but I have a soft spot for the Colstar. I bought a frameset from a shop in Romford as a spotty youngster in about 79/80...

From an Ebay seller in Berlin.

Re: I thought the frames were imported complete. But I suppose it's a bit like some current high end Italian bikes where the frames are made in Taiwan but nobody wants to admit it. Either way I'm happy with the frame. I'm not sure why all the decals were removed, the rest of the the bike is in...

So I bought this Dutch-Japanese beauty this summer and have started dismantling. I've already sourced a decal set from the guy on Ebay who seems to offer a remarkable selection of K-M decals and I must say they are excellent. I was a bit disappointed with the "triple butted tubing" decal -...

That's nice for a first road bike, well done. I've just started a full resto on a 1984 KM Fullpro-S which I will be posting as I make progress. I'm missing an aero bottle too but am pondering one of the period Shimao copies on Ebay - might not be authentic but look the part and are cheap...

Re: Thanks for the comments. Certainly the front tub is a bit off - I rode it for 30km on Sunday and it was fine, but now it will get stripped down and the tubs will be replaced. You're correct about the calipers - there are aero AX calipers in the DA and 600 ranges, but I'm glad this bike...

I've wanted a mid 80s bike for a while and a few years ago I was drawn towards Koga Miyata as they were doing something unconventional, eschewing European parts and using Japanese frames and Shimano groupsets for their bikes. I just bought this 1984 Fullpro-S, in original condition complete...

Re: Thanks for your kind words gentlemen!