nothing yet...Honestly, not expecting a huge amount of excitement here...It's hard to get excited about someone else's project for sure...regardless, I move forward. Working on not finding the perfect components, but good period correct stuff i can pickup inexpensively...So I'm looking for a seatpost - What were the desirable seat posts on the market in Italy around 1960? I'm assuming a few things about this bike - that it is roughy 1957-1962, that it was built for a purpose, and that puropse maybe was long distance riding/racing, given the pump braze ons and the braze ons leading me to believe it originally hard bar end shifters, which would have been important in climbing at the time...but also fairly advanced for the day too, no? One probably wouldnt have gone with bar ends back then unless they needed it. It's just not practical for daily use, and the downtube type shifters would have functioned better and made more sense for a normal person. Also, the frame is big, so I'm leaning toward at least the north of Italy, since people there tend to be taller. (making serious assumptions here - reaching for sure...)

Anyway - The bike sits, waiting for it's bottom bracket and cranks. I'm thinking about Campagnolo Gran sport three piece hubs - 36 and 36 (40 and 36 bugs me for some reason) - Anything else you might suggest to look for that would have been a high-end hub back then (and still good today) and approriate for an Italian?