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Ah thanks. Actually they also replied to me similarly. I was thinking it might be an 80’s-90’s frame due to vertical dropouts and recessed brake but. But the cable stops are more like a 70’s bike so that makes sense. Possible has vertical dropouts otherwise it’d be impossible to get the...

Thanks yeah it’s 238 matching forks and BB serials

Just emailed them the serial number as well as a pic of the frame thanks for reminding me!

Another little thing, the approx '97 Athena headset I had suffered from pretty bad indexing. Both the crown race and cups were badly indented so needed replacing. I managed to get a replacement crown race NOS, but wasn't able to get the correct lower cup as these were also badly indexed too...

Few more shots of the wheels. I mounted someConti GP5000 AS TR 28mm tubeless. Originally I ordered a pair from a shop and even inflated to 90psi with soapy water but they still had a 5mm wobble in them, despite being fully seated. Had to order another pair and return the old ones, looks like...

Great work, looks beautiful. Love these old Look bikes!

Now some work on the BB. Bought this second hand on eBay, and when I received it, it was butter smooth. Upon installing it I noticed that it binded a little when threading in the NDS cup, just before it bottomed out. Over time I was able to bottom it out and it was smooth. However after a...

Rear wheel now. This would be a bit tricker due to the typical asymmetry, the spacing of the hub means it's a roughly 47% NDS to DS tension. Have to separate the DS Sapim Race spokes from the NDS Lasers! These are the Sapim HM nipple washers, noticeably makes a difference, with the spoke...

Ok so the wheel build begins. here are the specs: - Borg 22 Rims. These are rebranded Kinlin XR22T - Sapim Laser spokes 2.0/1.5/2.0mm butted. These are about as thin as you can get in the middle. I'll use these on the rear NDS but run a thicker Sapim Race 2.0/1.8/2.0 on the DS. The lasers...

Next step was to remove the drive side cone and replace with the new one. Came off reasonably easy with a bit of aluminium tube and a few taps. A few taps seated the donor cone back on to the Record titanium axle The free hub is quite unique on this hub as it's a titanium inner which...

Ok so the hub rebuild begins. First task is to take out the drive side cup from both hubs. I've never done this before but did a bit of research and got a bearing extractor that would fit the cup. I used a heat gun to slowly heat up the hub shell and tapped it out from behind. Didn't take a...

absolutely gorgeous... beautiful colour choices

Snippet from the 1998 Spare parts catalogue, these are the parts I need, but aren't readily available However I managed to track down a NOS Athena/Veloce hub from similar vintage which shares a lot of parts, so this would mean I could also change the balls, cups, seals, pawls, springs etc...

Now for the bad news... Seems like the DS Cone is pitted to hell, also the cup has slight pits too. So basically needs to be replaced. These hubs have replaceable cups luckily but the DS cup and cone for these hubs are rare as hens teeth. NDS Cup and cone were fine however Other than that...

Now for the hubs... I managed to get a set of wheels which the seller described as Chorus. Whilst I have owned a few groupsets from the 11 speed era I'm less knowledgeable about the earlier 90's stuff. On closer inspection it turns out these are 9sp Record titanium hubs! From scouring...

Beautiful frame and bike! I also have a Dave Hinde as well (although may be a refinished Rourke)

Now I have a slight dilemma about what I do with the wheels. The objective of the bike is to do a sort of tribute to mid 90's Campagnolo stuff, so everything shiny and curvy. I've always loved this stuff. Seeing as the shifters are 8sp and the options are to use a Shimano hub and space a...

I ended up buying some Centaur calipers from the early 2000's as they have a few mm more reach. Looks like they only need a little bit more on the front... Back is actually fine So on the front, I ended up filing a few mm out of the brake pad slots... worked a treat Also I polished up...

So then I pulled apart the shifters and replaced the G springs and carriers. The RHS spring carrier is not available any more so I had to take a later model one and saw off the post and file down the nub to make it fit. Original on left, new one on the right before modification Now modified...