Originally Posted by Body2big
SO I am now thinking of doing the full retro to my vintage too. I have a local shop that can spread the rear triangle to 130mm. Any tips or good advice as to what type of groupo should go on a canadian bike? I have no idea of the year but its A canadian CCM Silver Ghost. 531 reynolds, Weimerann 999 brakes(sp) don't have the bike near me LOL. Would Shimano be a bad thing to put on it? Or should I go campy? there are no water bottle mounts either is this a thing from the past where they used clamp on stuff??
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Shawn
I think a Shimano group would work well on your bike, and you should use what ever you would like.
Clamp-Ons were a popular thing in the 70's as bike manufactures, especially Cinelli, was touting it as a feature in that brazed on items weaken the tubing, so the better frames did not have them. It was however a lark, and actually just lowered manufacturing costs more than it weaken frames. As such it seems some of the most sought after Cinelli bikes have Clamp-ons all over the place, just because of this moment in history
