I've been collecting pretty aggressively since I retired and have been trying to get some top quality pictures of my collection for quite some time. It is amazing how long it takes me to get good pictures. I really know very little about photography but I am learning. This last week I spent a lot of time taking photos so unless someone objects I am going to do a series of threads on some of the bikes in my collection. Most have been restored by me to at least some degree and some were built from framesets. I hope you like. More pictures on my website, link is in signature.

Next is my 1983 Ciocc San Cristobal. This is a Ten Speed Drive Ciocc with the Rasta (red, gold, black and green, plus white I guess so you also get tricolore) color scheme. It is pretty heavily pantographed. I bought it as a complete bike but it was fairly rough. Lots of grime and corrosion on chrome, heavily weathered paint and a fair number of scratches. I stripped to frame, frame saved it, polished chrome and rubbed out weathered paint. I decided to touch up the worst scraped but couldn't really a good color match on this deep dark blue purple color so I am still not really happy with that. I also redid all the paint in the pantographing, and sourced and installed Ciocc pantographed brake calipers and levers. I also serviced everything like I do with all bikes I buy (well not the Gios) and replaced cables and housing. Otherwise all is original except the brakes (which I swapped with my 84 Ciocc). The color scheme is kind of wild but I like it. All in all it turned out well but it is a bit too big for me at 61cm. I could make it fit better with a shorter stem but I don't want to replace the pantographed stem. We'll see.

This bike doesn't photograph against the black background so well but the white background shows dirt so easily it is a pain to work with in my dirty garage.