Re: [CR] Best vintage italian components other than Campy NR?

(Example: Framebuilding:Restoration)

Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:44:10 -0400
From: "Joe Bender-Zanoni" <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR] Best vintage italian components other than Campy NR?
In-reply-to: <ABD079F38D58E54FBCC327A1D1BBD8630174FC25@kaci-mail-10.na.bvcorp.net>
To: "Cheung, Doland" <CheungD@bv.com>
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Another interesting option is Avocet. No derailleurs or brakes available but everything else. Plus you can add tires, saddle and a cyclometer. My Jim Redcay touring bike is set up with an Avocet group. The sealed bearing headset is quite a piece of engineering (and not an amateur installation either). Most of this set, if not all was made by Ofmega.

Joe Bender-Zanoni Great Notch, NJ

Cheung, Doland wrote:
>What would be the next best vintage italian components to Campy NR?
>Ofmega? Modolo?
>
>I think it would be interesting to build a '70s style, 2nd tier all
>italian race bike, but have no clue what that would be. Something a
>regular Joe (or is that Guiseppe?) in Italy would race on the weekends,
>sort of a modern day equivalent to a Cannondale with Shimano Ultegra.

>

>Doland Cheung

>SoCal