Originally Posted by
cyclotoine
wow! So you commissioned pantographing? Do you have a friend? In anycase can you give me any more info? I have/had a set of milled brake calipers with one broken arm and I have a spare caliper I would like to have milled to match, but have no idea where to begin to find someone to do it... looks like you know the answer and also an idea of cost?
I indeed have a friend in Italy who can and does pantograph work for me. He is however retired and is not overly interested in doing it for just anybody. The cost is all rather relative if you are looking to build a "special" bike, either you go for it or you don't. My friend did one set of brake calipers for me, but said that he didn't want to do any more because of liability. The fact that you already have a broken one shows this danger...
Originally Posted by
cyclotoine
Also, that is the first time I have seen one of those saddles. I really like it... is is comfy? It actually looks pretty comfortable to me. Also, those are probably my favorite vintage hubs. I have a set I need to lace up and recently acquired a set of campy chorus hubs laced to campy polished finish clinchers, I was thinking I should lace the hubs to my set of nice red/gold label MA40s but now am thinking I should mimic what you have and re-lace the campy rims to the mavic hubs...
The Iscaselle Giro d'Italia saddles have always been really nice. They don't however correspond to everybody's idea of ideal proportions. I personally quite like the look and they don't give me any discomfort, so they are OK by me (I have others fitted to my triplet!)