COLNAGOS: 25 Years of Supers et al.

[Nothin-fancy]

Uhg, I'm so jealous. It's interesting to note that the blue model pictured has clamp on shifter cable guides. While your orange model has top brazed guides. I wonder why/what the difference would be??? Different builder's or someone asking for one or the other or just a transition?

I've got a 3 arm Campagnolo Gran Sport group that I've been trying to find a early 70's-late 60's frame set for. Obviously it would be a down grade for a frame like this but a middling Bianchi or Raleigh would be perfect for it.

 

[Jesper]

Uhg, I'm so jealous. It's interesting to note that the blue model pictured has clamp on shifter cable guides. While your orange model has top brazed guides. I wonder why/what the difference would be??? Different builder's or someone asking for one or the other or just a transition?

I've got a 3 arm Campagnolo Gran Sport group that I've been trying to find a early 70's-late 60's frame set for. Obviously it would be a down grade for a frame like this but a middling Bianchi or Raleigh would be perfect for it.

The braze-ons were always an option from what I can tell. It is a bit of an odd build having some braze-on and some clamp-on bits. I researched other frames of the same era and found a few similar anomalies regarding those details that I could pretty much verify visually as having original paint (definitely examples of custom work done on repainted frames. My biggest concern were the bottle cage mounts; but again I found an example that existed on a frame with original livery. Earliest frame I have with cage mounts is a lower end '66 French Cazenave that has the threaded studs for cage mounts.

I like the GS 3 arm crankset. I have the Sport chromed steel version (tapered not cottered) which actually looks quite nice albeit a bit heavy in comparison

 

[Jesper]

Having made the decision to go with the ITM cockpit, now comes the job of making it look like it belongs on that frame. I will do some hand filing to smooth things out and polish it to an acceptable finish. This should take me longer to do than anything else except if building wheels which at this point I am not doing having found that I habeca couple sets idle at this time with both having Camp. "Record" hubs.

 

[Nothin-fancy]

It is interesting how most Italian builders seemed to just grab whatever was within reach when building frames to make production quota's. I've seen some interesting head scratcher's before. About the only builder's that were consistent were the bigger contract builder's like Billato. And it's surprising how many marquee's were built by contract shop's. Even Mondonico was made by a contract builder after Mauro retired in 2005.

That ITM stem is pretty cool looking. You would think they would have spent a little more time with a better casting job than that. I get they can't spend time filing every stem, but dang that's some fat flashing.