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@woooops
Hi everyone, despite lurking on here a few years now this is my first public thread so please don't bite my head off!
Lockdown blues have got me thinking about bike projects and I've decided to convert my old steel frame from fixed to a roadie. Frame is a Pinarello Asolo from the early 90's I found on here a whilee back and got from @diaolous (i think?)
Anyway it's been my almost daily ride ever since in a couple of guises and as you can see from the pictures the paintwork has taken a bit of a beating, but it fits perfectly and is just great to ride, hence me deciding to build it up as my go to road bike. Eventually the plan would be to get it repainted but for the moment I'm just going to focus on building it up.
I'm sorry as I know this might be a bit of an abomination to many, but I've decided to build it up with a modern groupset and wheelset - although I appreciate a full restoration would be awesome, I'm doing this because I want to be able to hammer away on this thing regularly, and while it would be cool to have it looking great, I'm more concerned with the ride because that's what I love about the frame.
This is the bike in its current state (sorry for the suboptimal photo) :
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