Originally Posted by oldcrank
Beautiful find, Scooper. The hi-flange hubs and chrone head lugs really make it. What are the chainrings? 52-49? They look very close in teeth.
Originally Posted by number6
Eyeball those cranks, are the cotter pins opposing as they should? Crank arms do not look 180 degrees apart, no?
You guys are good!
The photo was taken soon after I bought the bike, and Oscar Juner (six day racer in the late thirties and longtime owner of American Cyclery in San Francisco) had replaced the original Campy crankset with a Williams (English) set. The chainrings were 46-42 for the San Francisco hills, and the crank arms were 165 mm.
A couple of months ago I replaced the Williams crankset with Campy Record, 53-42 chainrings with 172.5 mm crank arms (still looking for dust caps). It's now much closer to the original Campy Nouvo Record 52-49, 170 mm crank arms, but instead of the 49T small ring, I have 42T for the hills.
I also replaced the original tubular rims with new Mavic MA3s and clincher tires, the original Cinelli 38 cm bars with Nitto 42 cm bars, and the stem with a higher (longer, taller?) Nitto stem with a 110 mm extension. It fits me perfectly now and rides a lot better than when I first bought it.
