Originally Posted by
63rickert
Try riding it with the saddle as far back as it goes and maybe a shorter stem. Handling might improve. If you don't like the ride it's just another old bike. But switch up this and that and hope for the best before you let it go. If nothing else you got a bucket of nice parts out of the deal. The idea of the extra curve on the QR was you could snug them all the way against the fork or stay and there would be nothing to snag when riding at very close quarters on the track. Race officials were not impressed with that idea, very few were ever raced, Campy gave up on the notion, and now we have some oddball parts still floating around.
I was thinking moving the contact points rearward as well, but will be trying a Short and Shallow type of bar to achieve this, having no drop to the hoods from the bar top (the bike is a little short for me).
The stem is I think an upper-tier SR product, thankfully with decent quill length, and has a 26mm clamping diameter.
I was curious about those curved skewer levers, the tip really does disappear when closed.
I did a decent ride on it today, descended into the canyon and found the seatpost had slipped down a cm or two. I had to raise it back up to climb out. With the steep seattube, moving the saddle back a bit seems like a good idea, even though I typically use a relatively forward saddle position.