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Old 08-29-12 | 09:14 PM
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From: Joisey
Looks sweet! I'm far from a purist, but if you're trying to make it "complete 'classic bike'" I gotta ask/suggest:

1. Why use top tube cable clamps in addition to the braze-on cable housing guides? I've never seen them both used, back in the day or now, should be one or the other, not both: clamps if no braze-ons, no clamps if braze-ons are present.

2. Seatpost looks like a later/cheaper Campy aero post, really should be a non-aero Nuovo Record or Super Record post; Super Record ideally to match the other parts.

3. Chainrings should be Super Record.

4. I can't i.d. the shifters, but they look black? Should be Super Record...

I've owned two Medici Pro Strada, still have one of them. I sold a fairly early one for a friend some years back. I like 'em, I like the back story, I like that Bill Recht was from Jersey.

I don't know of any companies with pure karma. We're all free to apply whatever moral standards we want, of course, but I doubt there's any bike company you can look into that didn't have corporate back-stabbing, financial shenanigans or whatever somewhere in its history.
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