I have read through a lot of the previous comments and they all commend you for the work you put into this. Its all been said before but I just want to say that this is inspirational. I am currently in Italy near to Rimini and touring around on a friends MTB. I am having a great time but riding this bike would be the icing on the cake ! Keep up the good work !
Thank you John, glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏼👍🏼 I was fortunate enough to visit Italy in June to ride Eroica and absolutely fell in love with the country 👌🏼 Enjoy your trip 👍🏼
Great job. Can see this bike being a hugely popular ride. Built a 1999 steel Ciocc with 2012 Campag. Record 11 speed Groupset. Big fan of retro frame/modern’ish components.
I like the idea of Neo-Retro (or Restomod), and I do it a lot on my bike projects. There are plenty of good and capable classic steel frames that wait to be resurrected. In terms of performance and handling the Neo-Retro is almost always better than original and provides the rider with a modern bike, but classic looks. Wished I had the patience and skills to do the little details like you do them - all the kudos for you!
I totally understand why you would do this, but for me the Dow tube shifters just look so good and I can’t stand the look of the bare mounts on the frame. Still, this is a great build, kudos to you!
I give you a great deal of credit for the work and all the care you took. I have to say it-- you put so much effort to restore a beautiful iconic Italian frame and then you installed a Japanese 105 group? That makes my stomach hurt. What would Irio say?
Very nice build. Here in the States it’s commonly known as a Retro-Modern build. I personally am not a fan of such builds but realize you get the best of both worlds. Practical real-life shifting and braking with frame aesthetics of the past. Life is full of trade offs and such a build is one of them. What I enjoy most of your channel and content is when your experience, intersects with ur patience, you turn out some art. The medium just happens to be bicycles.
Love the bike! The paint, and how you blended in the splatter effect is brilliant, as is your seat tube etching. I am 72, and ride two “neo-retro bikes, a 1985 Bridgestone 600, and an early 90’s custom frame, beautifuly brazed, unknown maker. Both with mixture of 105 and Ultegra, Mavic rims and 105 hubs. Glad I don’t have to feel guilty about needing big cassettes and brake lever shifting. Steel is real!
Great build! A few techniques that were very novel to me and worked out very well ! Love the match between the tyres and the bar tape! You made a very comfortable bike with carbon fork and easy gears ! Retro builds can be pragmatic as well ! Nice !
I just picked up the EXACT same Tommasini Super Prestige with the identical finish which I believe is known as "Marbo Negra". Mine came with Dura-Ace 7400. I'll probably watch your video a hundred times to take notes. Thanks for posting it.
Awesome, enjoy your bike. I’ve put a few hundred kilometers on mine since finishing this build project and I absolutely love the ride this bike gives 👌🏼👍🏼
@@BuffsVintageBikes Outstanding. I just got my "needs" to start digging into the rust on the chainstays and the rest of the bike. The paint looks solid. The Cinelli aluminum cockpit looks like an easy clean-up. It's all going to need a lot of elbow grease (and real grease) to see where she's at mechanically plus new cables, tires, tubes, brake shoes, a new chain & bar tape and she should be right as rain after that. The current Mavic MA40's are in really nice shape with Dura-Ace hubs. I still can't believed how I scored this one. I think it'd be about R4123.51 in your neck of the woods (aka $300 here in the states). When I post the videos on the process, I'll make sure to come back here and let you know. 👍
Beautiful restoration. Stumbled upon it looking for info.on Tommasini frames. Think this old beater in my area is going to become my next project. Thanks for the ideas
Nice job. I sent my Tommasini Sintesi frame back to the factory (through the USA importer) for a new paint job. Reasonable pricing. For what its worth, he pronounced the name with a strong "o" sound (toe), rather than like the name "Tom."
I think old frames with modern components are a good idea. The gearing is always way to high and the brakes suck on vintage bikes. So using modern components is a big leap forward. Great vid mate.
So much better than it just stuck up in the rafters! I think it looks good but more importantly I'm happy that it's living a whole new life. Great job!
@@BuffsVintageBikes I got this by suburban motor spares a while back but some paint and hardware stores should have as well. Upol Isopon Metalik Smooth Metallic Body Filler. Metulux, or metalu is similar products
Another great vid, and your production is getting better and better with every episode .... keep up the good work, and thank you for generating the brilliant content.
Great work on this neo-retro build. They're my favourite, actually. I love the look and the ride of vintage steel but I really appreciate the functionality of a new groupset. Thanks for sharing and putting yourself out there. -Mike's Bikes Work
Like everything except the white tires. I built up a '91 NOS Bertoni TSX with all polished alloy Campy Centaur 10s. Even the Ultratorque crank looks right! Fantastic ride!
Nice work. If you didn't know any better, you would say this one was just pulled out of a bike showroom somewhere in 2007. The black and white colour scheme really ties it all together.
Great build! I've bought a 1980 Motobecane like the one I had when I was an undergrad. It arrives tomorrow. Has what I'm betting is the original Shimano Altus shifters and mechs, can't tell about the brakes. My plan is assess the viability of simply restoring this bike or doing some judicious upgrades, sort of like what you did here. Either way, I'm looking forward to the journey.
@@BuffsVintageBikes Progress made. After much deliberation, I decided to give the bike a new frame finish but stick with the original components. I can always change to modern components later.
Great job , dent on top tube was bad but sorted complete with paint job . Bringing steel frames back too life shows ultimately Keep It Real Keep It Steel . Craftsmen built frames don't deserve too die.
I have an old Shogun frame. It has some surface rust on it, however it still has good bones. It needs rust removal, stripping and painting. It will be a retro/new rebuild...though I can't find a fork that long enough to go threadless on. I hate threaded headsets.
@@BuffsVintageBikes I'll need to save some money for components and come up with an improvised painting stand/rack. I got the paint remover, and I'll wrap the rusted bits in paper towels soaked with evapo-rust.
Very nice neo-retro build. I personally would have went with a modern group set in silver, but this looks nice. I myself am working on two new-retro builds and will be using Campy 11 speed, both Athena and Centaur group sets in silver with some custom polishing and pantographing.
11 speed polished silver would have been ideal but I’m working on a tight budget so I had to use what I had available. Functional it works perfectly and doesn’t look to bad either 👍🏼
@@BuffsVintageBikes I'm glad you used the black components especially with the available wheels and fork. I do like the Shimano 105 5700 10 speed group set, I don't understand the desire for 11 speed unless you're desperate for an extra "granny gear" at the back. Just change the mismatched Colnago bar finishing tape for World Champion stripes and it's perfect !
I've got my 3rd original race bike still 30 years later... I'm gonna do same thing but with campagnolo c record.... I could never have afford it when I was 18
Absolutely superb mate! 👌👌 That etching came out absolutely perfect! I'm just waiting on some headset parts coming back from the platers ready to rebuild my dads Dawes Debonair that he had when he was a kid, and it will be a semi 'neo-retro' build. Just the motivation I needed to crack on (once the temp heats up a bit in Scotland for painting) 😂
Did you have to spread out and cold-set the space between the chainstays to accommodate the new cassette? I have a Colnago Super frame from the '80s that I want upgrade to a modern groupset but the spacing between the chainstays is too narrow. I took it to a LBS and they couldn't guarantee that the frame wouldn't crack because the owner/mechanic said that it looked like the stays (or the join points or something of that nature, don't remember exactly as it was a while ago) might be made out of hardened steel, which might crack if bent too far.
This particular frame had already been stretched to 130mm by the previous owner but yes, you’ll need to do that to accommodate the 10 or 11 speed. It’s not normally an issue to cold set any vintage steel stays as it only needs to move 2mm wider either side and then realign the dropouts. Check out RJ the Bike Guy’s channel, he has a great video on how to do this 👍🏼
Nope, none of the above as the previous owner was running a 10speed friction on it. I just checked alignment to make sure he did a good enough job on it.
Very nice. I have a couple of steel Treks that I have neo retro and they go like crazy. Not much matches but Wow! The one I go to most is a Trek 500 Tri Series for most every day rides. The old steel is just so much fun to ride, why not fit them out with outboard crank bearings, double pivot brakes, a better set of wheels and brifters? Let us know how the carbon fork works for you and is it a harsher ride than the steel?
Would the groupset you used in this build work in a Favorit Special from 1970s? I'm planning to make a Neo-Retro build as well and need some advice on the groupset.
If you can get hold of the correct through axle Bottom Bracket to fit your Favorit frame then there’s no reason why it shouldn’t work. You might just need to spread your rear chain stays to take the 10 speed hub as it’s 131mm as opposed to the normal 126mm but you can check out AJ the Bike Guys video on how to do that 👍🏼
If you have Dura Ace and 600 components, what you have is about as good as you can get. Leave them alone. A freewheel with larger cogs will help you climb hills. Super Champion rims are good enough and look better. You would do better to get new paint that was candy apple or just Imron epoxy in your favorite color. You could get some gold paint that looks like real gold to outline the lugs. If that isn't fancy enough how about new handlebars with leather tape?
I don't know why but this is the third time I've tried to post this (possibly because I'm linking to another site and it's being rejected as spam). Anyway, here goes again! Have you seen this European website (called velosalon . com - I've not posted a link this time!)? It's stuffed full of retro frames, components and wheels, etc and well worth wasting an hour or so on :-) Also, I wish manufacturers would make retro looking but modern functioning parts which would suit "resto-mods" so much better.
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I have read through a lot of the previous comments and they all commend you for the work you put into this. Its all been said before but I just want to say that this is inspirational. I am currently in Italy near to Rimini and touring around on a friends MTB. I am having a great time but riding this bike would be the icing on the cake ! Keep up the good work !
Thank you John, glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏼👍🏼 I was fortunate enough to visit Italy in June to ride Eroica and absolutely fell in love with the country 👌🏼 Enjoy your trip 👍🏼
The paint flicking with the frayed wire is genius. Well done!
Thanks, some restorations force you to think outside the box 😁
Great job. Can see this bike being a hugely popular ride. Built a 1999 steel Ciocc with 2012 Campag. Record 11 speed Groupset. Big fan of retro frame/modern’ish components.
That sounds like an awesome build Felix 👌🏼👍🏼
Loved this build and particularly want to compliment you on the paint splattering. A terrific result.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video 🙏🏼👍🏼
Lovely work, beautiful.
My first real bike,, sharp handling , fast ride and light
Best restoration i've seen. Wow.
Thank you, much appreciated 👍🏼
just finished polishing up same frame getting it ready for new groupset dura ace ,well thats the plan.great video you done super job.
That’s awesome, I haven’t seen another one in this colour scheme so glad to hear there still a few around 👍🏼 All the best with your build 🙌🏼
You really take things to a whole new level. The attention to details in all your videos is exraordinary. Big thumbs up from me!
Thank you 🙏🏼 Small details sometime make a big difference in the finished product 👍🏼
very pleased with your work
Thank you 👍🏼
I like the idea of Neo-Retro (or Restomod), and I do it a lot on my bike projects. There are plenty of good and capable classic steel frames that wait to be resurrected. In terms of performance and handling the Neo-Retro is almost always better than original and provides the rider with a modern bike, but classic looks.
Wished I had the patience and skills to do the little details like you do them - all the kudos for you!
I totally understand why you would do this, but for me the Dow tube shifters just look so good and I can’t stand the look of the bare mounts on the frame. Still, this is a great build, kudos to you!
I give you a great deal of credit for the work and all the care you took. I have to say it-- you put so much effort to restore a beautiful iconic Italian frame and then you installed a Japanese 105 group? That makes my stomach hurt. What would Irio say?
Nothing stopping me from putting an original groupset back on the frame when I can find an affordable one in good condition 👍🏼
Very nice build. Here in the States it’s commonly known as a Retro-Modern build. I personally am not a fan of such builds but realize you get the best of both worlds. Practical real-life shifting and braking with frame aesthetics of the past. Life is full of trade offs and such a build is one of them. What I enjoy most of your channel and content is when your experience, intersects with ur patience, you turn out some art. The medium just happens to be bicycles.
It’s indeed the best of both worlds although I struggle to let go of the beauty and simplicity of the past. Thank you for the compliment 🙏🏼👍🏼
Love the bike! The paint, and how you blended in the splatter effect is brilliant, as is your seat tube etching. I am 72, and ride two “neo-retro bikes, a 1985 Bridgestone 600, and an early 90’s custom frame, beautifuly brazed, unknown maker. Both with mixture of 105 and Ultegra, Mavic rims and 105 hubs. Glad I don’t have to feel guilty about needing big cassettes and brake lever shifting. Steel is real!
Thanks for the feedback and kind words Jon, glad you enjoyed the video. Your bikes sound great, keep on pedaling 👊🏼👍🏼
Great build. I would love to see a video about how you produce your custom decals as well as the etching process you used.
Thanks Robert. Check out the rest of my videos, there’s one specifically on the etching process 👍🏼
Great build! A few techniques that were very novel to me and worked out very well !
Love the match between the tyres and the bar tape!
You made a very comfortable bike with carbon fork and easy gears !
Retro builds can be pragmatic as well !
Nice !
Thanks Fergus, I’m still enjoying this bike very much, it’s such a great ride 👍🏼
what a fantastic result.Quality of workmanship first class.I gotta say you have buckets more patience than me with all the finishing and detail work.
Turned out very nice! Contrasting white and black tires look a lot better than all black tires on these retro builds!
Thanks and I agree, a bit of contrast is good 👍🏼
What a fantastic looking bike. I haven't seen Cinelli Cork handlebar tape in over thirty years.
I just picked up the EXACT same Tommasini Super Prestige with the identical finish which I believe is known as "Marbo Negra". Mine came with Dura-Ace 7400. I'll probably watch your video a hundred times to take notes. Thanks for posting it.
Awesome, enjoy your bike. I’ve put a few hundred kilometers on mine since finishing this build project and I absolutely love the ride this bike gives 👌🏼👍🏼
@@BuffsVintageBikes Outstanding. I just got my "needs" to start digging into the rust on the chainstays and the rest of the bike. The paint looks solid. The Cinelli aluminum cockpit looks like an easy clean-up.
It's all going to need a lot of elbow grease (and real grease) to see where she's at mechanically plus new cables, tires, tubes, brake shoes, a new chain & bar tape and she should be right as rain after that.
The current Mavic MA40's are in really nice shape with Dura-Ace hubs.
I still can't believed how I scored this one. I think it'd be about R4123.51 in your neck of the woods (aka $300 here in the states).
When I post the videos on the process, I'll make sure to come back here and let you know. 👍
Beautiful restoration. Stumbled upon it looking for info.on Tommasini frames. Think this old beater in my area is going to become my next project. Thanks for the ideas
Thanks, good luck with your project 👊🏼👍🏼
Great job sir, i love seeing classic bikes.
Nice work on seat post wow
Great job! Paint spatter technique you used was a great idea.
Nice job. I sent my Tommasini Sintesi frame back to the factory (through the USA importer) for a new paint job. Reasonable pricing. For what its worth, he pronounced the name with a strong "o" sound (toe), rather than like the name "Tom."
Fantastic work as always and a stunning frame to be enjoyed for many more years to come nice work matey
Thanks Andy, I’m loving the ride it gives 👌🏼👍🏼
Great job. You‘re a true master craftsman
Thank you 🙏🏼
What a fantastic build, neo-retro is my favourite way to set up a bike. It really is the best of both worlds
Thank you and you’re right, I love the ride this bike gives, absolutely sublime 👌🏼
@@BuffsVintageBikes I'm definitely going to use your frayed cable paint flicking technique, that was a new one to me
Great video.
I think old frames with modern components are a good idea. The gearing is always way to high and the brakes suck on vintage bikes. So using modern components is a big leap forward. Great vid mate.
Valid points indeed, it’s a bit like driving an old VW Beetle down the motorway 😁
So much better than it just stuck up in the rafters! I think it looks good but more importantly I'm happy that it's living a whole new life. Great job!
Wow. incredible job repairing that top tube!
Looks amazing!
Wow awesome build. I just finished a old Hansom build and love the way you bring these old bikes back to life
Thanks Diedrich 🙏🏼👍🏼 I’m glad to hear there’s another SA classic been saved, enjoy 👍🏼
👌 nice build… try an aluminium body filler with aluminium in it instead of spot putty … buke looks good Brett
I’ll give it a try Achmad, any idea who stocks it locally?
@@BuffsVintageBikes I got this by suburban motor spares a while back but some paint and hardware stores should have as well. Upol Isopon Metalik Smooth Metallic Body Filler. Metulux, or metalu is similar products
Another great vid, and your production is getting better and better with every episode .... keep up the good work, and thank you for generating the brilliant content.
Fantastic job, it looks beautiful. Well done mate.
Great work on this neo-retro build. They're my favourite, actually. I love the look and the ride of vintage steel but I really appreciate the functionality of a new groupset. Thanks for sharing and putting yourself out there. -Mike's Bikes Work
Both you and I, it’s the best of both worlds 👍🏼
Like everything except the white tires. I built up a '91 NOS Bertoni TSX with all polished alloy Campy Centaur 10s. Even the Ultratorque crank looks right! Fantastic ride!
That sounds like an awesome bike Richard, I’d love to see a photo of it 👍🏼
Greetings. A very nice restore you did. The look of this bike is fantastic and a real eye-catcher. Stay safe and healthy.
Nice work. If you didn't know any better, you would say this one was just pulled out of a bike showroom somewhere in 2007. The black and white colour scheme really ties it all together.
Thank you 👍🏼
That is just beautiful, well done!
Looks fantastic...
Beautiful build. Enjoy
Excellent work mate, color repair is gorgeous. Congratulations!
Thank you 🙏🏼
Great build! I've bought a 1980 Motobecane like the one I had when I was an undergrad. It arrives tomorrow. Has what I'm betting is the original Shimano Altus shifters and mechs, can't tell about the brakes. My plan is assess the viability of simply restoring this bike or doing some judicious upgrades, sort of like what you did here. Either way, I'm looking forward to the journey.
Sounds great, good luck with the project 👍🏼
@@BuffsVintageBikes Progress made. After much deliberation, I decided to give the bike a new frame finish but stick with the original components. I can always change to modern components later.
You should have sprayed frame saver in the frame tubes before building the frame up (Amsoil metal protectant works great for this).
Sadly we don’t get Frame Saver in South Africa.
Great job , dent on top tube was bad but sorted complete with paint job .
Bringing steel frames back too life shows ultimately Keep It Real Keep It Steel . Craftsmen built frames don't deserve too die.
I’ve felt into the video I loved it it’s already was a classic but your touches made it better
Well done good job
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it 👍🏼
I have an old Shogun frame. It has some surface rust on it, however it still has good bones. It needs rust removal, stripping and painting. It will be a retro/new rebuild...though I can't find a fork that long enough to go threadless on. I hate threaded headsets.
Sounds like an interesting project, get on it 🚴🏼♂️👍🏼
@@BuffsVintageBikes I'll need to save some money for components and come up with an improvised painting stand/rack. I got the paint remover, and I'll wrap the rusted bits in paper towels soaked with evapo-rust.
This is an outstanding build. Stunning Bro-ret. thanks for flying the SA flag high
Nice build, great skills
Thanks for sharing
I’m not too sure about the choice of tyres but as you mentioned you had in your stock
Very nice neo-retro build. I personally would have went with a modern group set in silver, but this looks nice. I myself am working on two new-retro builds and will be using Campy 11 speed, both Athena and Centaur group sets in silver with some custom polishing and pantographing.
11 speed polished silver would have been ideal but I’m working on a tight budget so I had to use what I had available. Functional it works perfectly and doesn’t look to bad either 👍🏼
@@BuffsVintageBikes I'm glad you used the black components especially with the available wheels and fork. I do like the Shimano 105 5700 10 speed group set, I don't understand the desire for 11 speed unless you're desperate for an extra "granny gear" at the back.
Just change the mismatched Colnago bar finishing tape for World Champion stripes and it's perfect !
I've got my 3rd original race bike still 30 years later... I'm gonna do same thing but with campagnolo c record.... I could never have afford it when I was 18
Awesome Tim, enjoy the build, C-Record is a beautiful groupset 👌🏼
Yes i think neo retro is the way to go good old steel frame with modern sti groupsets you can't beat that combo.
True, the bike rides like a dream 👍🏼
Great job! It came out awesome 👏🏼
I had one exactly (except for size) like that one. Paint job and all👍
Pro job 😎
Absolutely superb mate! 👌👌 That etching came out absolutely perfect! I'm just waiting on some headset parts coming back from the platers ready to rebuild my dads Dawes Debonair that he had when he was a kid, and it will be a semi 'neo-retro' build. Just the motivation I needed to crack on (once the temp heats up a bit in Scotland for painting) 😂
Did you have to spread out and cold-set the space between the chainstays to accommodate the new cassette? I have a Colnago Super frame from the '80s that I want upgrade to a modern groupset but the spacing between the chainstays is too narrow. I took it to a LBS and they couldn't guarantee that the frame wouldn't crack because the owner/mechanic said that it looked like the stays (or the join points or something of that nature, don't remember exactly as it was a while ago) might be made out of hardened steel, which might crack if bent too far.
This particular frame had already been stretched to 130mm by the previous owner but yes, you’ll need to do that to accommodate the 10 or 11 speed. It’s not normally an issue to cold set any vintage steel stays as it only needs to move 2mm wider either side and then realign the dropouts. Check out RJ the Bike Guy’s channel, he has a great video on how to do this 👍🏼
beautiful!!!!!
Thank you!!
Great job, I assume you also had to spread the rear triangles, aligned the rear dropouts and modified the rear brake bridge?
Nope, none of the above as the previous owner was running a 10speed friction on it. I just checked alignment to make sure he did a good enough job on it.
Hi. Can you explain how you made the Tomasini logo on the seatpost?
Great job!
Have a look through the other videos on my channel and you’ll find one where I explain the process I use to etch components 👍🏼
Steel is real 👌
Fantastic work
Etched seatpost super-cool. Needs bigger tires. 32's maybe. Ty.
Agreed but 32’s won’t fit, maybe 28’s will just make it 👍🏼
Stunning job swaer
Thanks swaer, time to get that Colnago out the rafters and onto the road 😁👍🏼
thorougly enjoyed this video, thanks for sharing..
Great looking build
Hi, friend!!! It was spectacular !!! Very good work ; )
🙏🏼 thank you, that means a lot coming from you, I love your work 🙌🏼
@@BuffsVintageBikes Friend !!! I'm wondering the same. I have put your channel as recommended. You deserve everything ; )
Beauty!
Bellissssimo job
Very nice work. I learned a lot.
Very nice. I have a couple of steel Treks that I have neo retro and they go like crazy. Not much matches but Wow! The one I go to most is a Trek 500 Tri Series for most every day rides. The old steel is just so much fun to ride, why not fit them out with outboard crank bearings, double pivot brakes, a better set of wheels and brifters? Let us know how the carbon fork works for you and is it a harsher ride than the steel?
ahh beautiful restoration contents!
Very nice.
Would the groupset you used in this build work in a Favorit Special from 1970s? I'm planning to make a Neo-Retro build as well and need some advice on the groupset.
If you can get hold of the correct through axle Bottom Bracket to fit your Favorit frame then there’s no reason why it shouldn’t work. You might just need to spread your rear chain stays to take the 10 speed hub as it’s 131mm as opposed to the normal 126mm but you can check out AJ the Bike Guys video on how to do that 👍🏼
Looks epic! One day I plan on doing a neo retro bike but it won't be near as good as this😅
Beautiful!
Fantastic build. What did you use to etch the seatpost?
Thanks, it’s an etching technique that I’ve managed to perfect for bike parts. You’ll find a video of it on my channel 👍🏼
insane job
You can paint-splatter the fork too. I think it would look good if you masked of or in a logo doing it. (preferably yours)
That’s not a bad idea, I might just consider that, thanks 👍🏼
Good job. Very beautufullll...🥺👍👍👍
If you have Dura Ace and 600 components, what you have is about as good as you can get. Leave them alone. A freewheel with larger cogs will help you climb hills. Super Champion rims are good enough and look better. You would do better to get new paint that was candy apple or just Imron epoxy in your favorite color. You could get some gold paint that looks like real gold to outline the lugs. If that isn't fancy enough how about new handlebars with leather tape?
Hermosa 😘
I just think the old chrome fork looks better,at least
Unfortunately it wasn’t the original fork and it wasn’t in good condition otherwise I would have kept it on the bike 👍🏼
Great build 👍
I’m gradually getting used to your South African accent 😊
Hahaha, thanks Mike 👍🏼 I can imagine my accent must be challenging and I’ve got it pretty bad as well 😊
How much did it weigh.
I haven’t bothered weighing it.
Needs Campa
Agreed but hard to find and expensive in SA.
I don't know why but this is the third time I've tried to post this (possibly because I'm linking to another site and it's being rejected as spam).
Anyway, here goes again! Have you seen this European website (called velosalon . com - I've not posted a link this time!)? It's stuffed full of retro frames, components and wheels, etc and well worth wasting an hour or so on :-)
Also, I wish manufacturers would make retro looking but modern functioning parts which would suit "resto-mods" so much better.
I haven’t yet but I’ll go check it out, thanks. Tektro make a few retro looking parts that are pretty decent, especially their RL340 brake levers 👍🏼
Very nice.