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Very cool! Front clearance looks tight enough to me.
Got any pictures of the frame prior to the repair?

DAT masi btw. pff

Thanks for that Gaston! It does makes sense to lower the tip of the saddle, although it looks a bit off...
About the 'bend over touch your feet thing': tried that once, not even close.

Been too bussy to finish the bike last week. Right now there are only small things left really.. setting up the gears and brakes, order the inner tubes, rim tape, chain & cassette.

For the bars I am thinking black perforated tape (Fizik soft touch maybe) + yellow electrical tape underneath. Sounds a little weird maybe. But need some black tape with yellow details. I've seen the black tape, perforated, with blue color underneath but couldn't find them in black&yellow, so I thought I'll just make that myself.

While not finishing the bike I did buy something too expensive and silly for it:

Yeah, i got this one at planet x, there is a white band underneath the black one.

Fizik Microtex

Deda Traforato

Thank you!

Nice!

What bar tape is that? I'm thinking of using yellow electrical tape underneath a black perforated bar tape, yours looks kinda see through... right?

Fck that's nice!
So is it a 24" front?

Good choice!
So.. we are both actually building up a black Concorde tt with yellow details?
We should start a crew..

What seatpost size does aelle tubing usually have? 26.8?

My Concorde with Aelle tubing does have 26.8

Saw that Ellis-Briggs! Very pretty!

So nice!

What are those bars then?

Silly cheap non period correct poop bars. Don't even know what brand. Can check my LBS if you like...

i reckon you moved florian? no knsm eiland shots next to piraeus anymore..

Did move! A couple of times. But never lived on KNSM. Used to work there though. Thanks for the idea: if this bike is finished I'm doing a KNSM shot of it!

Concorde is starting to look like a bike now..

from

Found some chorus/record? brake levers with black hoods that still look decent.. Bike is getting blacker and blacker, need to add some colour soon.
The water bottle is nice and bright though. ha!

The 100mm DA stem had to go (here), switched it for a Shimano600 70mm that will probably do the trick.

Wasn't feeling the NITTO rb-021 on this frame when I rode it fixed so got something with a similar rise at the bar ends but without the drop..
Added some NITTO bar end plugs for the street cred.

All that plus the rear (8speed) and front mech results in something that is actually close to ridable,

there's an nos/nib one on t'bay , perhaps it's gone....

You mean the one i linked to...?
At 580 dollar there was no buyer. No shit.

From this:
To this:
Don't really want to put mudguards back on it :/

What brand is the front wheel?!

Found the perfect seat for my TT bike..

Someone tried to make silly money selling one on the Bay a few minutes ago, haha LINK

I think i've found the perfect seat for this build...

Carbon + titanium rails. Going to be a pretty blacked out bike now, but love the yellow details on the seat.. kind of match the logo of the FiR rims.
Maybe some yellow on black bar tape would finish it.

i say yes to full sparkly build

Do it!

I celebrate this one year anniversary of total inactivity in this thread with this:

Just added some other Concordes to the cluster on Velospace, 50 in total now, lovely bunch!
http://velospace.org/viewcluster?c=704

Really like that Principia! Needs matching tires!

I'm thinking of doing fenders again. Last time i had these SKS things:
http://www.sks-germany.com/?l=nl&a=product&r=spatborden&i=6208801430&BLUEMELS
Don't have eyelets for them though so it got a bit messy with tie-wraps and such.. what's the best option while keeping a classic look on the bike?

that's fcking hawt. you got that logo in your fork as well?

Awesome project you got there.. Wanna race who finishes his black Concorde tt first?

... I needed a 700c rear FiR Super Rialto wheel/rim..

Did some searching on eBay and such, nothing. Sometimes I found a FiR Rialto which looks kinda similar but still.. matching decals was what I was aiming for.

At some point I stumbled upon an Italian cycling shop that also sold some vintage stuff, NOS FiR Super Rialto Grid rims included :) I was fucking stoked and ordered one straight away for a little over €90 via their contact form (old school online shopping this).

Thing is, I have no experience with wheel building and my favorite LBS didn't want to take on this project because the rim was build for internal nipples. Larger shops told me it would take them too long, they didn't have time because it was pre-summer season.. or something, assholes. So i took the rim to a friend who had build a wheel or two and after a mere 18 months the wheel was done.. you can't hurry up your mate can you. Anyway: shit looks good, can't wait to put it on the frame!