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The Ciussi Inox stainless cage has red buttons, the yellow buttons were on the original alloy Ciussi. The Elite 3c cage (also called the Ciussi 'Black' by the company) looks very much like the original and has yellow buttons too but is only available anodized black.

Originally Oscar Egg's company, produced all sort of kit (mainly rear mechs) under the Super Champion branding. Eventually owned by Wolber and then passed on (complete with the remains of that company) to Hutchinson.

Like this If I have any problems I'll fill them with alloy and dress them back same as I'll do if they can be seen above the seat lug.

I'd go with Super too.

From the way it follows the line of the joint I'd put money on it being cracked braze filler though there's a small chance that it's just the paint if the joint wasn't cleaned properly before the frame was painted. Not difficult to fix.

A standard outer cable slides through the tube on my FCK9. Unlike the dural frames, the seat post is 23mm. Although stamped VITUS, I believe it's actually a Stronglight Delta post. I maybe picky about it, but whosoever made it, it isn't great - before I corrected it, the 'aero' section on mine...

And 'Campy'

I used to ride 177.5 then dropped to 175 when I started riding again because at the time there weren't any longer cranks immediately available. My new build has a set of 180 waiting to be mounted once the frame has been refinished.

As there are no vertical tubes on a diamond frame (Baines Gate and similar designs excepted), they all present as an ellipse to the airflow.

I've a surplus set of Soma bars I took off a display bike I bought a few months back. They're 42cm centre to centre though.

Ah, yes. The Mountech used the odd internal cable route slant parallelogram from the AR series rear mechs.

Gear lever looks like Huret but the rear mech looks almost like a Suntour Mountech

Couple of things in the pictures say "maybe it is" but most say "no it's not". $1500? - maybe if they're Hong Kong or Trinidadian dollars.

I'd also check the condition of the threads inside the nut and on the pinch bolt.

I vaguely remember one day in late 81 or early 82 a box van arrived at the Falcon factory in Brigg with the contents of the Quinn workshop - including a couple (or more) Quinn frames - which were all stacked in a corner of the little used 'showroom'. I moved on a month or two later so have no...