Recent content by jim haseltine

Round tubes, the style of the stay/dropout joints and the internal brake cable suggest that it's a Super Piu but it could be a Superissimo or an Altain. Trying to identify a refinished Colnago frame is a nightmare, especially as the factory was open for varying models for special orders. To my...

I've posted this picture before: There was also a single speed Mexico with flat bars often leaning against the window of a chemist's shop and on one evening I spotted a carbon aero Cinelli in a stack of bikes outside the staff entrance of a restaurant.

Back when I worked in the trade alloy cotterless cranks were starting to appear on utility bikes and we had a lot of customers complain of knocking or clicking when they rode - especially, for some reason, on Falcon bikes. The cure was a tiny drop of oil on the pedal threads and lightly wiped...

The only UT bike I use (a winter training/utility/hack - the other I've not finished building) has developed a creak - every left pedal stroke, it creaks. Originally I thought it was the sole of my shoe rubbing on the pedal platform but no, it's the left bearing moving in the cup - it'll take...

No. It's the paint style - although there was a specific 'Decor' model and some frames carry an 'Art Decor' script decal on the top tube.

Unless I'm very much mistaken, it's a mid to late 1990s Super Thron (sometimes incorrectly called a Thron Super). Going by the paint scheme (which is similar to the decor used on the Altain models) I'd err more to the late 90s.

That outer chainring has seen better days.

I think (but I'm no way an expert in the mechanics of modern Campag stuff) that like bikeworkshop wrote earlier you've got a lot of worn parts in the shifter - none worn enough to be instantly identifiable as the cause but each contributing a little to the issue. Maybe you could try a different...

This is a slightly out of focus pic of a 26 year old Record 9 speed which was working perfectly when I swapped it out as part of a global upgrade to 10 speed on all my bikes a couple of months back. As you can see, the tops of the same teeth are also flat. The only faults I've ever encountered...

Looks very much to me that there's a cutout. The levers look to be those for the short-lived Weinmann/Dia Compe delta brakes - the issue with the cables was that the original Weinmann/GB/Altenburger metal bodies weren't subject to a major redesign for aero cables, they were just slightly...

The levers in this video look to be similar to the ones you're trying to fit.

Can't really see everything I'd like to see in the pictures but it looks to me as if the front mech is angled. Ideally the outer cage should be parallel with the chain rings. Also get an impression that the cage is high too - it should clear the outer chain ring teeth by no more than 3-4 mm at...

Thought there was a lip on the rear sprockets? Sort of doubled the thickness at the thread from what I remember. Things are still not much clearer - Everest Chain was started by Vittorio Fossati in the 1920s. At around the same time Guglielmo Caimi started making freewheels under the Caimi...

Regina Extra and Oro freewheels seem to start at around £15 on a popular on-line auction site. The vast majority of them have the remover slots buggered up but there are a couple that look ok to me. There is actually a NOS Everest body there too. Then comes the first of a couple of pieces of fun...

Almost certain that Everest freewheels were actually a branded version of the Regina Oro model so most likely a Regina Extra or Oro body would fit those sprockets. If so, the rear two sprockets were left hand threaded and fitted from the back of the body.