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He's 92. I wonder if they sold all 85 of the Ottanta5 limited edition (celebrating his 85th birthday) and if so how much does one go for now?

The technology behind the 3D printed lugs is impressive but that's about as far as it goes - the frame is fugly and so is the Campagnolo group set. And that's from a long-time (40 year) Colnago rider. I'd could also say that I'm a 50 year Campagnolo fanboi but their products over the last decade...

There's a range of limited edition (numbered) clothing to go with it. If you have to ask for the prices you shouldn't even think of buying any.

Considering the potential for disfiguring facial injuries, it's somewhat surprising that so many movie stars had studio contracts that allowed them to ride bicycles. Says a man with more scars on his face and head than Dr. Frankenstein's creation.

Paul Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward in a scene from A New Kind of Love. Don't bother - I doubt that either of them would have included it in a list of their 10 greatest films.

I had a set of CLB Pro brakes. The calipers were on the light side of things but the levers were the lightest around for quite a few years. A few years later I came across a set of cheap looking similar shaped calipers on a cooking bike - don't know what they were made of or how well they worked...

There's a section in Gino's biography where he talks about his attempts to discover if Coppi was doping, he even went to the extent of searching Fausto's hotel rooms. One time he found a bottle in the trash which he sent for chemical testing of it's contents. He was disappointed to find that it...

No, that's Kate Moss. A young Kate Moss.

From Stephen Rea's collection (hope he doesn't mind me posting some here). Audrey Humphrey Sir Michael

The only reason that there aren't two bikes in my dining room at the moment is that one of them is on a turbo trainer in my garage.

I'd go with that before anything else. The crank/spindle interface could well have suffered from a badly fitted (ie. loose) pin at some point.

After a bit more digging I now reckon that it's the frame from a Tecnos. They had crimped top and down tubes, a race number tag and the rear brake cable went through the top tube. All that is qualified by my assertion in my first reply about Colnago and rules.

Now that I've been able to view the first set of pics on a large screen it looks to me that the top and down tubes are crimped. That points at a Nuovo Mexico or similar. From the style of the head lugs and the shot-in seat stays the frame is probably no older than mid to late 90s and the paint...

Difficult to tell from the photos, but basically the rule is if it has Gilco tubing then it's a master of some sort, if it has crimped tubing then it's likely to be a Nuovo Mexico. However, rules are made to be broken and nobody broke them more often than Colnago. If I really, really, had to...

You need a tyre with a decent rubber covered sidewall to drive one of those dynamos enough to produce a halfway decent output and then if the dynamo doesn't touch the tyre *just* right it'll either skip or cut a groove right through to the inner tube. IMO, the only good (for a given value of...

The Gilco Design home page. The content inside the various 'bici' links is sparse but very interesting.

Though the bike has a Klimatic rear mech rather than the awful SMS (Synchro Memory Shift) series of units, so that would make it a mid-80s bike by my guess.

Maybe you could get some ideas here. I'd suggest a much high level of workmanship though.

Kevin Costner Then there's the all-time classic of Italian neorealism

Campag did two sorts of triple. The first sort used a normal crank and the normal range 42-57 rings with extra long chainring sleeve bolts and a set of spacers to mount all three on the same PCD - this was intended for cyclocross. The second sort was for touring and was made with shorter flutes...