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Old 02-13-10 | 04:37 PM
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Keith Wigley
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From: Perth Scotland

Bikes: GT avalanche 1997, Bianchi SL EV2

mystery vintage

Hello all, this is the first time for me. I’m asking a big thing here but if someone out there can help I would be very happy. I have an old but quality steel framed bike from the 70-80s. I picked it up in about 1995 in a junk shop in York , England, sporting a do it yourself paint job so no idea who manufactured it. I want to get it resprayed in original colours if possible so wish to probe these mind out there.

The frame is all steel of bronze brazed lug construction. All the lugs are shaped and cut out with an arrowhead design. The tubes (all) are I think double butted as they ring sharply if flicked lightly (columbus or Reynolds)? Braze-ons are few. There are cable guides above the BB stamped CAMPAGNOLO, there are no gear lever lugs but instead there is an arrowhead shaped boss brazed to the top of the down tube to stop band on levers slipping. There are bottle bosses on the seat tube only. The rear drop outs appear similar to campy 1010 long with eyelets. The bottom bracket appears to be English thread, the serial number is 06554 stamped horizontally but upside-down across the front of the BB shell. I think the original colour was cherry red or cerese as it is present within the tubes when bb is removed.

The bike came built with good parts i.e campy pista 1972 headset, 1970s SR apex cranks with unusual drilled chainrings, cinelli stem etc.. it was matched to a Tange full chrome curved blade fork. (possibly not original) The wheels are mavic monthlery pro tubular rims on Mailard wide flange hubs.

Any advice would be warmly received.
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