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remember the "rodaplana" bike i showed some days ago?
The owner brought this one now. It's the "time trial" bike his father used... Wow! This bike is very very very light and it was made for hight velocity. Two big chainrings and a cassete with only 5 gears (all small "cogs"). The bike use a campagnolo super record (front and rear derailler. The rear one is perfurated... maybe to make it lighter; brake levers, headset), a pantograph cinelli stem (similar to the one at the pic but not with "Eddie M"), a NJS FiveGold saddle, two FIAMME Hard Silver 24h rims (very light rims), a cinelli dropbar...i think this one will have to be painted... i'll have to "strip&clean" her first to see the real condition of the frame.


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here you can see some others pics of the rodaplana bike. Please remember, this is not me posting a bike of mine as PORN. I shared it as a project and some people saw it as PORN (i thank you all for that). This is not my bike (i loooooove "her" but she's not mine). I hope you enjoy the new pics as much as i do. This is also PORN for me.


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the sexiest bike I've seen for years and a nice story too. Makes me want to take a pint of peek to my old bike and get it super shiny!
wow! thanks benjam! ;)
The owner of the bike called me today. He told me that he's going to bring me the time travel bike also. His father also saved the time travel bike (the one he used at the "Volta a Portugal"). He liked this rodaplana so much that now he wants to repair all his father's bikes. He told me that there are some others... glup! Let's see what he will bring next...
Well, it will be again a bike for giants (eh eh!)
Tonight i will have the "new one" here with me. I'll try to show it here (lfgss). A new "project"... :)the thing that makes me :) alot is that with this project (rebuilt the rodaplana) i made the owner start ridding bike again... I only wish you all can see his smile when i gave him the bike finished.
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2 months ago a friend of mine asked if it was possible for me to work with this **rodaplana **("she" did the 1981 volta a portugal. I think it was 81). She spent her last 15 years with dust and without seing the road). She was like this

She had a full dura-ace group but my friend also gave me this

his father was the professional rider of "her" and he have alot of dura-ace components (NOS) at home. I think he was paid with components at that time...
after alot of work she turned out like this


thank god she's to big for me... i'm in love for her... it will be very hard for me to give her back to her owner if she was a 54
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Coppi almost done:

I've got a shorter stem coming in, either remove or replace wheel decals, then put on bartape and work out how I can get the lockring onto the hub; I ordered a Gusset converter set (the blasphemy!) which should work with 9/10spd Campa, but can't get the lockring on (the 10spd hub), even though both thread on hub as well as lockring look fine?
Not sure on levers and chainring yet, but can't seem to find a 135bcd 48t roadversion..
Recommendations on pedals? Preferably regular double sided ones.WOW!!! I love it ;)
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Noca, It's getting rondiculous!!... That's sooo nice.
I'm the OG portuguese fixieskidder. I need to have a VALDEMIRO!
:=):) it's almost a CRIME you still don't have one
but please remind that it's better for you to give Valdemiro all the info (geometry, etc.) of what you really want.
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hey ;)
This is my new project. It's a custom frame. I did the geometry above and Valdemiro made the frame and the 1' fork. We used Easton scandium alloy (very very light the frame) and Columbus stell (fork). It's far far far from finish... It will use a 27.2 seatpost (not the one at the pic) and a 1' stem (110mm dura-ace) and a track handlebar (maybe a cinelli one. I still don't know). The saddle will be a flite (i'm a big flite freak). The crankset will be a miche primato 165 with 48t.
Now i'll have to spend alot of time with the paintjob (preparing the frame for it)... The "gold thing" you can see here it's only the alloy treatment (against oxidation)

the toptube didn't turn out as i wanted it... as you can see i prefer it without that "BOLD thing"... The reason i made this was to experiment a new geometry... If i'll like this one (i only can say after riding it) i will make a stell frame using the same geometry. I never had a frame this tight (er... sorry for my poor english! maybe this is not the right word)
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Noca,
did you ever receive my address? I sent it through the forum's 'send e-mail'-service, as I'm a new forum member and can't send pm's yet.
If you didn't receive it, please let me know. That stem cap is the very last thing plastic on my Alan. :)
Cheers,
Henrik
hey Henrik, i didn't recieve it!!!
please send it to nocaramos@gmail.comlet's make your Alan plastic free ;)
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for less Valdemiro built this project of mine (i gave him the geometry) with Easton scandium alloy (the same dropouts than the Pelizzoli frame). I also asked him for a steel fork. I choosed the "coroa" (sorry! i don't know the english word for it) with lugs and Valdemiro built the fork too. Sorry! It's not my intention to say this bike will be porn. I only show "her" here to tell that it's possible to have similar frames for less than 650€ (that's the price that Pelizzoli told me).
ignore the stem and fake bullhorn. I'll use a dura-ace stem and a track dropbar. Also that's not the final back wheel. I only use this one to see how the bike will look