I just got my bike back from Chris Kvale. I bought it used from him in '82, with a fresh paint job. It was made in '78 and was one of his personal bikes. My old reliable road rider and trusty commuter for a long time, it didn't get used much for about 10 years. But last spring and I revived an interest in serious rididing and realized I fit with the C&V crowd. Well one thing led to another, and I decided to have Chris give it a fresh paint job this winter. As much as I loved the old jade green (original pic at the bottom), it was not a stock color anymore and I decided, heck, I needed a midlife-crisis color. So here, fresh out of the box and soon do be decked out in Nuovo Record, Cinelli and yellow Benotto tape:













And yes, I kinda miss the original too: