Thanks everyone for the advice I received. I think I'll choose 1979 as year of build! After the repaint (I'll have sleepless nights over choosing the colour!) it will be fitted with first generation Dura Ace (with Crane rear derailleur). Which will be not exactly period correct, but close enough for me! Freek Faro Rotterdam Netherlands
2005/11/4, Michael Butler <pariscycles@yahoo.co.uk>:
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> --- Michael Butler <pariscycles@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> > Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 17:59:15 +0000 (GMT)
> > From: Michael Butler <pariscycles@yahoo.co.uk>
> > Subject: Re: [CR]advice needed, year of build of a
> > frame
> > To: Freek Faro <khun.freek@gmail.com>
> > CC: classic rendezvous <oroboyz@aol.com>
> >
> > Freek,
> > I would be very surprised if it is younger than
> > 1975.
> > Why do I think this well if the top tube cable eyes
> > for a full cable run are contemporary with the frame
> > I
> > would think that its most certainly 75 or later,
> > have
> > waded through hundreds of cycling pictures of the
> > professional peleton and 75 is the earliest
> > photographs I can find with these TT cable eyes.
> > These are on Bianchi's ridden by Gimondi & Van
> > Linden
> > and on Gios ridden by Roger de Vlaeminck and
> > Panizza.
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> >
> > Thats all for now. Keep those wheels spinning, in
> > your memories if not still on the road. Be lucky
> > Mick Butler Huntingdon UK.
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> Thats all for now. Keep those wheels spinning, in your memories if not
> still on the road. Be lucky Mick Butler Huntingdon UK.