Faggin Project
 

I started taking apart my Faggin yesterday. It sort of becomes an archeology expedition. I probably won't send this out for painting until after christmas, I'll dispose of some of the components with my goal to end up with a totally Nouvo Record bike. Lots of photos.


This is the way I recieved it, complete with the original silca pump.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ec05/fag01.jpg

Modolo levers, I actually preferred these back in the mid-80s, the hoods are rotting away as good rubber will after 20 years and a lot of miles in California sun:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ec05/fag07.jpg

The brakes are late-eighties chorus that came off a Colnago of mine that met an untimely end, lots of engraving all over this frame, sort of remarkable now what you could get in a frame for less than $300 in the mid eighties:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ec05/fag03.jpg

Cinelli bars (criterium bends) and stem, these look almost like new:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ec05/fag05.jpg

more later.

Looks nice. I spotted a Faggin for sale in the local CL:
http://annarbor.craigslist.org/bik/414765670.html

Not my bike, WAY too big, but looks to be decent.

wow i wish i had $600 sittin in my bike fund for that bike. i can always find a reason to end up in ann arbor to pick something like that up.

I recently completed a Faggin project.

My frame (faggin script indicative) pre-dates yours by a few years.

Super Record components with NOS Modolo brakes.

They ride great, a very smooth and stable feeling.

I hate a friend of mine who removed the decals on his red faggin because people kept asking him about his '***-in'

Got almost everything off her last night, the lug work is sort of interesting:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ec05/TT1sm.jpg

a little surface rust on the chromed/engraved seat stay ends, every joint on the bike has cutouts or engraving:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...cluster1sm.jpg

Nicely finished fork crown on the top:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...rkcrown1sm.jpg

But damn rough on the underside, I assume the crown is a casting, I can't imagine how much heat it must take to get a solid braze joint between that huge hunk of crown and the fork tubes:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...rkcrown2sm.jpg

more later

I'm working on a faggin project as well but building it with 2007 campy centaur components. *ducks*
http://naughtylittlemonkey.org/bikes/faggin.jpg

so where did you get your decals?

more stuff.

The nicely rotted Columbus TreTubi decal:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...olumbus1sm.jpg

This is the crank that came off it, Its a Specialized that I suspect is Asian in origin (the only markings on it are the arm length), standard Campy bcd and Gipiemme rings:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...5/crank1sm.jpg

Underneath the crank, surprise surprise, a Dura Ace 7400 BB:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ec05/bb2sm.jpg

The cut-out BB shell:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ec05/bb3sm.jpg

No markings on the dropouts, front or rear, the rear adjusters are still intact:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...c05/rdo1sm.jpg

They came on the bike. The paint is still original.

beautiful bike... nice work.

*i totally thought you meant something else with your topic*

:B