Aende tout Mavic!

[Rod_Saetan]

Well, mostly. Had this a while and I thought it may be useful to do a build thread of sorts, I have nearly everything, but the frame has just come out of storage and I picked up a key missing part recently (thanks mdvineng!). I already had the majority of a Mavic group from MatBH5 which was intended for a Vitus I just didn't love enough to keep, and I really wanted to keep it and complete the group, the Aende is the right period and as it's yellow I figured it was appropriate for Mavic bits.

I'd been on the look out for a decent Aende in my size for some time, this one came up as a full bike with a really old build kit about 4 years ago, it was terribly described and terribly packaged but the frame and fork were OK. I love the heavily filed lugs and drilled dropouts/crown race shim.

The frame and fork appear to have had mudguard eyelets fitted at a later date, and not very well, it was obviously also painted then too, again not very well! I'm going to keep the paint, T cut it and re-do the decals as I think these ones are later than the frame. I am also going to remove the poorly installed mudguard eyelets, the frame barely takes a 23c tyre without a mudguard so who knows why they were put on in the first place! It will ultimately be a full Euro build with complete Mavic gruppo, but due to other projects and budgetary constraints I'll be using a different headset, seatpost and pedals for now. I have a nice period Cinelli bar and stem and a garish black and yellow Bio Turbo to top it off.

Anyway, some (terrible) pictures:

 

[Rod_Saetan]

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Oh, and no Mavic BB, I didn’t want to go to the lengths of chamfering the frame so I’ll be using a Royce one instead.

 

[kingbling]

Nice one Roly my first proper bike was a Paramount built by Pongo

 

[Midlife]

Should scrub up well . The centre punch marks on the forks are to help hold on a loose headset race, might wish to check the size of the headset needed.

 

[Rod_Saetan]

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Ah, interesting, thanks!

 

[doctor-bond]

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Sweet: always hankered after an aende - such cool details.

 

[Rod_Saetan]

This seemed reasonable, but I'm not actually convinced it's an Aende, no filed lugs or 'lightening' to speak of.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aende-Vintag ... 7675.l2557

 

[Midlife]

That ebay frame has a chainstay bridge, I don't think pongo had any in his workshop lol.

 

[Rod_Saetan]

Wasn't sure about the age of the bike (and obviously there is no serial number) but it came with a couple of parts I dated to @ 1984 so that's where I settled.

Rear mech:

Front mech (I ended up with both braze on and clamp on versions in silver):

Plus the Simplex made levers.

Hubs are I think 500s laced to Mavic Open 4 CD which I'm a big fan of:

Crank is a 630 double, I feel like it needs black chainring bolts now!

Brakes are I think the 430s in the 'SSC' dark ano, some damage but they'll work. Levers I hope to get in the new year but match, and then it's just a case of sticking it together. Mostly. Oh, Sachs 6 speed freewheel, Casiraghi NOS cables, Michelin NOS tyres.

 

[Rod_Saetan]

Slightly anxious couple of days as the two large boxes with this and another few bikes in I'd posted to myself next day delivery sort of 'disappeared', but I got home from a walk today and they were outside my door. All well that ends well I guess. Anyway, the mudguard eyes on the fork aren't as bad, and I think they'll be a nightmare to remove cleanly, the paintjob is worse than I'd remembered though so I think I'm going to put it together and if it all fits/I like it I'll deal with the mudguard eyelets when I get it repainted in something that doesn't fall off, in perhaps a slightly less Birdseye custard yellow.

Which reminds me:

Why do elephants paint their feet yellow?







To hide upside down in bowls of custard.

With thanks to the late, great Spike Milligan.