Originally Posted by satbuilder

September 2016, just before Labor Day, we had the remnants of tropical storm Hermine blow thru here. No rain, just wind.

Enough to blow over one of the pines out back.

Next day I was out with the chainsaw cutting it up and lucky me, I took a step back, and stepped right in a groundhog hole. Heard a snap and down I went. That was the end of my cycling season in 2016, and I'm just now getting back into it after a year plus and 30 pounds. I like to cook and eat, too.

I have several project bikes out in the garage. I'm sort of multitasking, working on a Molteni Orange match for the Colnago, picking up the garage a bit, and putting the Cinelli together.

At the moment, I'm stuck as I need to find a reasonably priced source for the gray cable housing like Campagnolo used back then. The real Campy stuff is very expensive. I'm also on the fence on finding a color for the bar tape.

I had found a pretty good match for the Dusty Rose Cinelli used. It's a 1957 Cadillac color, but for the time being I'm holding off on the touch up. Not sure I want to do that with this bike.

It's also taken me the better part of this year to locate all the correct parts, and I have just about everything I need except for a saddle.

So here's a shot of today's progress.