Originally Posted by
ryansu
Nice bike OP, if I may suggest before you take it apart to clean it take lots of pictures of how things go together, how the brake and shift cables run how the seat clamp bolt goes in etc it can help a lot on reassembly and if you don't do it you may regret it later, ask me how I know
. Have fun, take it slow, for sure deal with rust but I think you can deal with the rusty chrome area, touch it up with some silver nail polish to protect the bare metal you will have after you remove the rust and do the other maintenance -ride it, see how you like it, does it still fit? and then consider how to do a more permanent fix to the chrome, I have not done it but I understand re-chroming can be pricey.
Thank you and great advice which I'll take!
I've always built up my bikes and motorcycle engines, and used to having a few "extras" lol so taking pics prior to tearing down has kind of become second nature!
Good idea about not rushing (which I'm frankly prone to do). One of our local LBS's where I know the owner very well may have an untouched record 10spd group, probably late '90's that he's going to dig out for me to see if it's of interest. He thinks that it's all silver save the rear derailleur. Don't know price or compatibility yet. The rear wheel is currently built with a campy rim that I must have gotten cheaply because I laced it back in the day to a Shimano 600 freehub. Not sure if I can change out the freehub to a campy or if I'll need to buy wheels, etc. more research to do (love it)!
I am definitely going to take my time though with the cleaning and set up. I don't have a quiver of bikes. My daily ride is a Speedvagen (mostly steel with a carbon seat tube, fork, bars, etc). The DeRosa will supplement that, it won't be a piece of wall art, it will be ridden regularly.