Hi Zorro:
Have you measured this yourself?
Yep. The frame just arrived about two hours ago. (Fast — but then I was forced to pay up.) Anyway, using the Paterek manual for measuring seat tubes, I get 56 cm. And using a vernier to find the tube centers, I get 54 cm for the TT. Also 2.9 ... what's that 1 1/4" ID for the head tube. The head tube is curiously short — about 128.5 mm. My Vitus is about 55.5 'seat tube and 54 TT, bu the head tube is about 139 mm. I've not pulled out the BB yet, so I don't know the bracket inside diameter. You Campy people will know anyway.
Me? I'd sell it, or if I was building it up - might consider 650b wheels.
OK ... now I did not start this thread to be a cheering session, and I welcome all and every comment. So here are two follow up questions from me — cuz I know that you must have some reasons for ...
(a)
Selling? ... if it were yours. What's your take on it?
(b)
650b wheels? Well, OK. I'm not necessarily a worshipper of 700c. But what is in this? Geometry? Overlap? My initial response is ... if I want to ride this sort of wheel, I'll climb on my Trek 930, modded hybrid with Panaracer slicks I run at 90-100 psi. Heavier, but a cinch to ride in the Japanese city chaos.
BTW: The finish is
better than in the pics. And what I though was a bit of rust on the rear drop-outs turns out to be old grease. The entire frame seems to have been chromed. What I thought was a good scrape down to pimer on the TT turns out to be a decal on both sides ....
four (4) yellow stars on a stick-on decal. In fact, all the decals are stick-ons. Four stars. Now that rings a bell somewhere, but I just can't dig up the right synapse.