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@gertrudestein
Now that I caught your attention - a little backstory:
I work in a bikeshop, which is as of now closed for winter (We have a different climate and cycling culture over here
than let's say in UK). So, besides preparing for next season I and a few other colleagues decided to keep ourselves
busy with an other project - Restoring neglected classic frames and treating them with new groupsets.
So first up, this is what we've got so far:
Colnago Mexico, crimped columbus SL 6/10 tubing. Poorly refinished in Saronni Red. Shit decals, tarnished and rusty
chrome. I estimate it to be made in the late 70's.
The plan is to restore/redo the chromed fork and rear triangle, treat it with period appropriate decals and spray it in matte
Saronni red, the matte color should make the crimping of the tubes more pronounced, I'm pretty sure it's also going to give
an interesting contrast to the chromed rear triangle/forks, as well. It Wil be built up with polished and custom engraved
Campagnolo athena.
Secondly- a Pinarello Montello, Columbus SLX tubing. Formerly raced by Marius Sabaliauskas,
(I'm trying to get in touch with him in hope to get some info on the origin of the frame.)
It's getting a full rechrome and cromovelato finish in Pinarello's chromonero as in this catalogue.
Full lug lining and filled pantos included. Will be built up with Campagnolo Chorus.
Pinarello Dynalite, TIG welded from the same named Deddaciai tubing in 1995/1996. Regrettably the original fork is broken,
however I've found a replacement which I'm going to pick up later this week. Going to respray it in matte signal yellow (RAL 1023),
undecided on the groupset, Either campy or Sram if we get hold of the tour edition red groupset.
Pinarello Cadore, Columbus Cromor tubing.
The rear triangle and fork will be rechromed, going for a matte purple finish like on this nagasawa.
Will be built up with engraved and custom polished campagnolo athena or veloce.
Gios compact pro, late 90's
Don't have the guts to mess with the classic gios colorway, so just going to restore the chrome and refinish it in gios blue
with original decals. Will be built with the same polished and engraved Campagnolo Athena.
And the black sheep amongst the others- an old 4t titanium frame.
4t is the only framebuilder in Lithuania, making exclusively Ti frames.
Poorly painted in garish green-yellow by the coach we bought it from, it's getting a part brushed, part painted finish with
beadblasted 4t logos, still undecided on a precise colorway or groupset choice.
The frames were packaged and sent for chroming, there should be some progress later this week.
