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Old 04-09-18 | 07:03 PM
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Bikes: '72 Motobecane Grand Record, '72 Gitane tandem, '72 Raleigh Super Course, '73 Raleigh Gran Sport, '73 Colnago Super, '76 Fiorelli Coppi, '78 Raleigh SBDU Team Pro, '78 Trek 930, '81 Holdsworth Special 650B, '86 Masi GC, ’94 Bridgestone RB-T

~1976 Colnago

Spring is apparently Colnago build thread season, so I'll pile on. I got this as a frame/fork a few years back. The prior owner had removed the decals, but never gotten around to stripping or painting it, and it lingered like that a while with me while I tried to decide what to do with it. I finally got around to building it up last summer, on the theory that I should ride it and decide it I like it before painting it. I liked it. I got some decals when Velocals was having a sale, in preparation for a re-paint. But then I grew rather fond of the original paint, heavily patina'd as it is, and the metallic orange is a real winner. I realized that the areas where the original decals had been were in rather good shape, and finally decided to just re-decal the original paint, and call it done. So it's done. A semi-original rider. I'll take some better pictures someday when the weather cooperates.





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