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I am in Saumur right now for the Anjou! Care to share a link to "your" Spanish event?

No problem at all with your bike... it is a friendly and inclusive event rather than a snob and exclusive... nobody is going to complain about your hidden brake cables... Nice bike BTW

not aware of that. The Eroica Hispania is 200 Km with 3 K of climbing... I am happy to drive down to the Rioja for something a bit epic...most retro events are 70-100 Km, if you know a similarly epic event in Spain, please let me know

Anyone did the first edition last sunday? I've seen a few Brits posted the route on Strava... I'd like to do it next year... any comment? Positive/negative?

Re: OK... I have drilled the fork and the rear bridge... luckily the bridge was big enough to drill an 8 mm hole on the outside... (you have to drill from the outside, so only the outside hole can be bigger than the inside and not viceversa) basically I will fit a recessed bolt and the caliper...

Not very much... the purists will be horrified by those welds...

It is indeed a great event. Done it twice in 2012 and 2013. Doing the Anjou Velo Vintage with my wife instead this year, same weekend and a prettier area than Vlaanderen for a long weekend away. Next year Eroica Hispania in the Rioja... on paper looks as awesome and epic as the real one in...

Thanks, expert advice is exactly what is needed here... together with the 90 piece drill bit set I just ordered... :-)

I just bought a vintage Sun Wasp Reynolds 531 tandem frame for 40 quid, but it is meant to be fitted with drum brakes. I can drill the fork to take a front caliper, but the rear has to be a drum brake, I fear... I did a bit of reading about drums... are they really that bad as Sheldon Brown...

Re: Re: problem is typically the nut fitting ones are all 1960-70s and all crap... things like Weinmann and Universal just don't do the job of stopping a bloke on a bike. What I did on a 1960s Claude Butler was to open up the inner hole on the fork and rear bridge with a drill so that it would...

As above, they are recessed bolt fitting and they come with the bolts. Criterium are same period as Super Record... early 80s and they "copy" the design of SR calipers

Front derailleur sold. Anyone for the Galli Calipers?

Rear derailleur sold

3 Items: 1) Campagnolo Daytona 9 speed rear derailleur in very good conditions. Works very well, shifts 9 and 10 speed cassettes, possibly 8 but I have not tried. 20 pounds delivered to UK address 2) Campagnolo Daytona 10 speed front derailleur in very good conditions, band on, includes shims...

7410 obviously... Anyway, SOLD

170 mm cranks, rings are not original: they are 49 T Stronglight Zicral and a 39 T TA. The drive side crank arm has the teeth that engage with the titanium bolt damaged, therefore I have made a metal washer to mount on the bolt to fit it (visible in the photo). It works flawlessly and it's not...

These came off a set of Croce d'Aune hubs and I spent some time with my Makita drill and a metal brush bit to remove the oxidation from the eyelets. Judging by the anodising still present on most of the rim surface, they haven't gone very far. Minor scratches on the brake track, they are inwards...

Did this two years ago... a thoroughly enjoyable event... very relaxed atmosphere. The Saumur wine is a revelation

Mavic don't keep spares for anything which is 5 years old and these are older than that. You don't need original spokes, you just need straight pull spokes. Unfortunately there are nit many bladed straight pul spokes available... basically only Sapim CX ray, which are very expensive. Now you...

Same paint scheme as Tommasini...