These are beautiful bikes. But it does bring up a little story from a fellow I work with. In the early 80s working in a shop in Austria Daccordi was among the brands they carried. he was once installing a DO adjusted and the threads had not been chased post chroming. Now I don't know if that is something that should be done, but anyway.... the adjuster reached that tight point and SNAP off it came in the DO, returned the frame. This was a new bike he was building. For comparison he has nothing but gushing enthusiasm for how perfect every merckx frame that came out of the box was. Just a little tidbit for y'all.