What's in the Workstand ? ?

[gbcoupe]

Originally Posted by El Chaba

This just came off the work stand and has entered into an extended period of road testing…..

Somebody didn't bring this to the ride this morning.

Brought an ugly old orange De Rosa with Campy Delta's instead.

[El Chaba]

Originally Posted by gbcoupe

Coppi is ready for the road!

I saw this one in person today and it is a classic case of photos not doing the object justice. What a great machine.

[Waldo62]

Originally Posted by rccardr

Hunh.
Interesting.
Was under the very direct impression that he would only do the tesselated logo seat tube on new builds and not a panel.
Guess things have changed.

Nice frameset!

My 2023 RS doesn’t have a tessellated logo.

[sevencyclist]

Originally Posted by rccardr

Hunh.
Interesting.
Was under the very direct impression that he would only do the tesselated logo seat tube on new builds and not a panel.
Guess things have changed.

Nice frameset!

The dark metallic blue Sachs with pink and lime accents is a repaint in style of 2007 Era to give it period correct look.

[Wakatel_Luum]

Originally Posted by Tim Porter

This bike's on a journey involving at least three work stands: After 14 years of pretty hard life in a salt air environment, its achilles heel turned out to be the cable guides on the underside of the top tube. So it spent time on my work stand being totally disassembled. Next, I shipped it to Dave (with his encouragement, of course), where he replaced the cable guides with stainless ones on his work stand.

Soon it'll be on JB's work stand for total refinishing. I plan to have it done in the same color scheme because I've always loved it. This is the bike that won the NAHBS prize for fillet brazed frames, btw. Dave checked and confirmed that the frame's alignment was still perfect and that all is in order. Can't wait to get it back after its second trip through the DK and JB work stands.

Yep a fillet brazed stainless Kirk is a dream bike for me.

[Waldo62]

An early ‘90s Nobilette.

[jamesdak]

Well.....I know I said no more bikes, time to retire and be responsible. But, when a Look 555 with full Ultegra 10 speed shows up locally for a great price what can you do?



The STI shifter are buggered cosmetically and when I first tried them both shifted up but not down. I've yet to have any STI shifter that was actually broken so this didn't bother me much. There was a mismatched wheelset on it with the rear wheel being a heavy Shimano/Alex setup while the front was a really nice and light Velomax hubbed Easton. With what I know of these wheels I bet the rear rim cracked sometime in the past. Oh and I did miss a cracked pulley on the RD. I'm used to finding those on old Campagnolo but not Shimano. Once again, no problem, I've got replacements in my stash.

Couldn't find my preferred PB Blaster so I first flushed the shifters with WD-40. The rear came right to life but repeated flushing with the front yielded nothing. Let it soak for a day and still nothing. Flushed with more WD-40 and still nothing. Then I searched better, found my PB Blaster, hit the front again and a minute later it was back to life. WIN!!!!

Swapped out the mismatched wheels (that rear was crazy heavy!) for some Mavic Kyserium SL's and for now put on some old red GP3000s 700 x 23 tires. New Veloflex's are on the way.

The bike was 18 lbs 2 ozs as in this picture of how I got it.



Once I pulled off the empty saddle bag, bottle cages, computer mount, and swapped wheels it was right at 16 lbs, 13 ozs. Oh and the original rear had a Shimano 105 cassette and the lockring was tight as crap. So for now I swapped on a Sram Red 10 speed cassette I had in the stash.



I should get it out for a test ride Thursday. I have one mint ST-6600 rear shifter in my stash but the front one is for a triple. The shifter on it are mangled pretty bad. So I'll be looking for a matching double or another full set to put on this. But for now I'll ride as is. If I like it I do have enough of a mixed Campagnolo 11 speed setup to even go that route.

I'm curious to see how this compares to my MKIV Colnago C40.