fade

sold this bianchi 2 years ago but i regret it so much. it was built with minimax tubing and what a joy it was to ride!

dyander

Some awesome builds of late; I've been following along for a few years and finally got mine together and working.



An early Daytona 10 speed drive train on my Italvega.

fade

and my next bike was the colnago elegant. this frame was even more unbelievable and fantastic with the shamals on. one of the rare colnagos built with el-os. i also sold this and regret it to this day...

tamaso206

Are your lever QRs open on purpose?

WimVDD

Hi,

you don't happen to have some detailed photos of this Elegant (seatstaycluster, dropouts, bracketshell,lugs,...)? Or an exact frameweight or diameter of top- and downtube? I have an "unknown" frame I suspect being an Elegant but nobody can confirm this so far... This is the frame:



And now I'm posting here, I might as well post my "modern" vintage bike:

brandon98

My daughter on her 1987 Tenax Schwinn "Super Sport". It's a witch's brew of 10 speed Tiagra, Dura Ace 7800 laced to Open Pros, and 10 Speed Veloce Ergos shifting an 8 speed SRAM cassette (10 over 8 works perfectly). The shifters will likely be migrating to another bike to do 10 speed Campy duty and replaced with 8 Speed Claris that better fits her hand. Pedals are also on the list; she's finally getting comfortable with the LOOK PP66 pedals that match.

The jersey is roughly the same vintage as the bike.

Sir_Name 

@fade - Wow. Gorgeous bikes.
@WimVDD read through this thread if you haven't already. Nice Colnagos.
https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vi...ago-model.html

WimVDD

Thanks! Have more of them. :-) This is my favourite (without STI's but Colnago).

https://i60.tinypic.com/b63sc3.jpg

Wim

4Rings6Stars

Jaredn

What wheels are those?

Build looks great!!

WimVDD

I think Mavic R-Sys SLR.

Jaredn

Wow, no wonder they look so good. Almost as much as I spent on my whole build. lol!

dyander

Maybe, I'll see how I like them closed.
This newfangled kit has so many gizmos; what's a retro grouch to do?

Narhay

l

this is nice.

Soody

Just... wow.

Those tapering colnago forks with no rake are so goddamn sexy. How harsh is the ride though? Makes me think of Johan Museuw's colnago - good times on 12%ers in the 53 ring.

Soody

Lovely bike. No seat tube bottle cage mounts though? Why do builders do this? My Pete Tansley doesn't have any and I've been on the fence about sullying it with hose clamps for ages.

WimVDD

I don't know much about this Cinelli but in the 80'ies most racebikes (that is: those meant to race with) only had one cage. Earlier bikes had bottle cages held in place with clamps.

Soody

Interesting. Why though? Did cyclists just drink water on training rides in the 80s, so stopping to refill instead of carrying 2 bottles makes sense?

WimVDD

Good question. Fact is: most had a pump jammed between BB-shell and toptube so there was no place for a second cage.

WimVDD

This is another one of my steel bikes with ergo's: a 1994 Carrera (Columbus EL-OS tubing) with a 8 speed Campa Record groupset.

pmarlin

Thanks for the compliments for my Pinarello Montello. I bought the frame last year and built it with all new components - the idea being to make it look old from a distance but when you looked closely it was all modern stuff, except the fram of course. I was also a bit tired of every bike you see these days being mostly black. I call this colour scheme red white and chrome.

Here are the details:

Frame: Late 80’s Pinarello Montello (Columbus SLX tubing)
Groupset: Campagnolo Athena 11 sp (with ultra torque crankset)
Wheels: H Plus Son Archetypes on Novatec hubs (Campy copies)
Tyres: Vittoria Open Corsa SC
Seatpost: Nitto S83
Saddle: Selle San Marco Regal ( I have a RegalE on my carbon roadie)
Headset: Campagnolo Record
Stem: Nitto Dynamic
Handlebars: Nitto B136

and here are some up to date pictures although I have to say it looks better in the flesh.






PS. I know the rules say to take bike photos without any bottles on the bike, but the Coke biddons were bought to go with this bike. They are very '80s' and just suit the look I was going for..

Paul

gomango

1994 Colnago Elegant catalog page



Good thread regarding Elegants

velospace bike forums - Colnago wordperfect help

Pic of my 1993 Elegant in "Wordperfect" color scheme.

[IMG]DSCN5828_2 by gomango1849, on Flickr[/IMG]

AndyK 

Sweet! Did you have the frame cold-set to 130? You know Cinelli reissued their quill stem and 64 bars - would look perfect on the Pin!

AndyK 

Nice!! Love the leather(?) bar tape - reminds me of a vintage Ferrari!

gerryincwm

https://flic.kr/p/aLHtGV

My GIOS compact