"With steel, you’re not just buying a bike, you’re buying a timelessly stylish piece of art."
This is how I'd like to start the story about this steel racer. Made in mid 80s, probably by a small Italian manufacturer since the frame is not branded and it has an unusual measures. Beside the fact that a guy who used to ride it, chose custom made frame, he also wished to have Campagnolo Victory groupset on this bike :-)
But, at the moment we got it, this bike was in a really bad condition - the most of parts were dirty and rusty. Judging on the condition we faced with, we believe it was unused for more then twenty years. But, we were leading by a feel that this bike could be the special one. Finally, it was carefully restored after years of a devastating downtime.
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| this is how it looked before we started to work on it |
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| and the process of getting the shine back started :-) |
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| cleaning the old dirty gum |
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| putting a glue to a new seat for covering it with a black leather |
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| breaks before and after polishing |
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- and after a few weeks, we finally got this beautiful bike to almost original shape. We even left the old Vittoria tires (Vittoria Florida 19) on the wheels. On the other side, we cover the handlebar with a black leather as well
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| ok I know, I know :-) But I simply had to put this blue scarf as a part of a decoration at the end of this photo session |
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