Bike Forums - View Single Post - The answer to "How many projects can you handle at one time?"

07-15-12 | 02:05 PM

#7

Drillium Dude

Banned.

Joined: Jul 2009

Posts: 12,293

Likes: 4,862

From: PAZ

Okay, so what's the story on this one?

Well, ever since I got the '73 Super (the one I restored about 3 years ago - and I'm calling it a '73 vice '74 now), I've been wanting to add one more Colnago to my personal collection to bridge the middle of the gap between it and my '83 Mexico. This is just me, but I consider that era of Colnagos to be representative of what I like in Italian racing bikes.

Anyhow, Alex Moll contacted me a few weeks ago regarding some feedback/advice about an Italian frame purchase he was thinking of making; Alex has never in his life had an Italian rig, although he's got quite the collection of French, British and American-made high-end stuff (he's no slouch in the drillium/restoration department, either).

I helped out with suggestions best I could. A few days after purchasing the frame, he found this '78 Super and wanted to buy it as a donor bike and offered up the frame and a few components he wouldn't be needing. His plan is early-80s Super Record and I had spares of that stuff, so we traded SR for NR and the frame was a simple money deal.

Yesterday he brought the frame/parts over, along with his 1973 Davidson. We did a short 20 miler in the morning - kinda neat, as we both rode our Davidsons, which just happen to be 30 years apart in age. Upon returning, we removed the parts from the Super that Alex will be using and took out the HS in the Masi as well. He also passed this cool tool along to me:

Dremel dual-sander:

Cool, huh? And the instruction sheet shows that a polishing belt can also be used on this, so that's an added bonus.

So, Alex is still awaiting his frame - hopefully it arrives in the next week (it's in the country via DHL, so that's good). The plan is to meet up next weekend at the Bryant Trailhead of the Centennial Trail, ride to his house and check out his new beauty. Fingers crossed that it arrives safely and the weather is good.

Okay, without further delay, here are the frame's details. Enjoy!

Rear dropouts and 1978 Nuovo Record RD:

Backside of driveside rear DO - note the additional round buttresses; those are for the Portacatena drilling sites:

Backside of non-driveside rear DO - note the nick pattern: I believe someone used this with a rear rack, and the nicks are from a set of Blackburn adapters: