Restoring Guerciotti
09-03-11, 09:14 AM
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it is not a tsd bike. Looks to be 84 guerch. Campy super rec. Columb. slx etc...All original. He doesn't remember the exact year he got it.
09-03-11, 10:32 AM
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Yup. My wife's fave ride is her 1981 with bags and bags of miles on it. I've considered refinishing it for her, but the chrome is (typical Italian 1970s-1980s) junk, and the QC on the brazework, is well, to be charitable, very poor (and the BB shell is brazed slightly out-of-plane!), so it would probably cost $1000 in paint, chrome, QC work, and decals to make the frameset be worth $350 afterwards (and the BB shell would still be crooked). I still might do it at some point, though, since I almost can't get her to ride anything else!
09-03-11, 10:41 AM
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My wife's 1981 has neither of those bridges, just a plain biconical bridge with diamond reinforcement plates at the stays. She bought it new in 1981, but maybe it sat unsold for a while? I think it is the color of the upper one in your post (we've always called it "BMW blue").
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