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it would for sure shift alot better with the suntour and simplex
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Well done, it looks great! The new owner will love it!
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Wow that is just amazing! Incredible effort and even more incredible result. You have me thinking that I need to try to learn how do this - seeing what the before looked like and the beautiful final result.
This one was of the bikes I would always drool over at my local shop when I was younger. |
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Looks like I need to move back to AZ.
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And I think young Sophia is better... but this wins because taking a Dremel and polishing pads to Sophia would not have brought her back to this condition
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For these Alan produced models (Guerciotti, Alan, Vitus, Rossin and I think a model from Japan Nagasawa?) with Alu Lugs, You can get this finish by hand with a course towel and a soft towel and some mothers polish... For the parts (and if there are scrapes and scratches) you need Dremel and some polishing pads... Amazon is your friend... You can do nearly all of this with These three things (and a dremel and some mothers) Rouge Sticks POLISHING BITS Buffing heads If you have deep nasty scratches or want to remove the dull anodising you can use the sanding heads in course-medium-fine... The rest is just having a few tools on hand...
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Excellent!! Thank you very much Charles. I was hoping for a starting point or primer. Will of course check out YouTube etc. Always enjoy the Pez Cycling site and feeds. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk |
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Very well done!!! Looks great.
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OK, OK. I get the critique. But what if Sophia was riding that bike? At any age?
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It was a nice touch to hand rake the gravel too in the first few pics
It is indeed fun when old machinery (bikes, cars, cameras...) clean up so beautifully. Thanks for sharing it. |
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Beautiful bike! I've always liked Guerciotti, mostly the steel version, ever since I worked in a shop in the mid 70s and built up a few for friends. My favorite was an orange frameset with a little metallic in the paint. The bike I built for myself was a '76 Alan Super Record which I still have. I cleaned it up a couple of years ago. This is where anodized aluminum can be a bit better than steel as it cleaned up almost like new. I took it completely apart including all the components though I only hand polished the frame. I even cleaned up the original tubular wheels that had glue that had been drying for about 25 years. I think the pictures have the clincher wheelset which are Ambrosio Excellence. I have, of course, the original pedals - also NR w/Christophe & Binda.
A couple photos here: https://forums.thepaceline.net/showp...&postcount=622 And here: https://forums.thepaceline.net/showp...&postcount=625 |
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The trick is the shop needed to rube the head lug a bit as that fitment was tight and a LOT of these bikes are dead from cracked lugs because the tolerance was too tight.
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I've seen enough aluminum and AlAn frames with split lug(s) and/or headtube, likely an ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure. I still remember my first ride on the red Guerciotti Sprint with the Victory-style crankarms, I crossed through a rough intersection and immediately thought that I must have had a flat tire. Nope. |
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This was just a local shop her in AZ (I may actually know the guy that sold and bought this originally) but they knew their stuff. That said, a friend of mine has this identical bike, but it also has that cracked head-lug. This one has miles on it. It was well used, but also very well cared for. When I got it, it was dirty and aged, but otherwise FANTASTIC... It just took a little rubbing... (New chain, NOS Campagnolo original cable housings, new Hoods, New toe straps, new saddle and tape) The rest is all original.... Just polished. (My favorite are the josckey wheels going back to white )
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Were these Alan frames with small diameter tubes noodles under power? AL has about 1/3 the modulus of steel; to optimize its properties the diameter should be larger.
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