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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...

As far as I'm aware, with the exception of the awful 'hiddenset' headsets all 1" Campag headsets from that time (both threaded and unthreaded) used exactly the same 26.4mm crown race, so I doubt they made any with a different i.d. and if they did they'd list seat cutters in different diameters...

That'll be a Masciaghi Coppi, the company F.lli Masciaghi (Masciaghi Brothers in english) took control of the Coppi brand back in the mid-1990s, moved to producing alloy frames and expanded to utility bikes. More recently the company was bought out and looks to have dropped the lightweight bike...

My ATB setup is as close as possible to my road bikes, has stiff suspension and narrow road tyres too. It's ok for a potter around the lanes but for anything else it's awful. One Sunday last winter I was heading home after an easy 25 miles on it (why, I've no idea there must have been some...

Not a model I recognise and I think I'd have remembered the colour. Judging from positions of the decals (too-low decal on the down tube and too high on the seat tube) and their style, I'd say it was finished at the Brigg factory, most probably after I left the company so sometime after 1981.

It's amazing what you see in a bike workshop. My old boss used to reckon that we should write a book about it. In my opinion it'd get put in the fiction category because nobody would believe it was the truth. I still remember pulling a tyre and tube off a Raleigh Roadster and discovering that...

I watch Ricky's Youtubes - it was from one of those where I learned the ins&outs of overhauling my oil pump, saved me at least £3K.

The problem with the twin turbo V10 is that when something breaks, if the cause isn't obvious most places (especially Audi main dealerships) fire the parts cannon and may eventually fix the car after replacing many parts that were perfectly serviceable. Blows smoke at start up? That'll be new...

My two long-term projects back in the days when they were roadworthy, taxed and MoT'd A 1988 quattro turbo (MB engine code) currently undergoing body restoration and engine rebuild A 1981 quattro turbo (WR engine code) currently undergoing body restoration And then there's the reason why...

I'm almost(!) certain that 9-speed Xenons were actually marked '9 speed' in white on the outer plate of the body and both plates of the cage were self-coloured steel. That's what mine looks like anyway and all the 10 speeds I've seen are marked like the one pictured and have either a black outer...

I've been using ridewithgps.com for some years now. It's got a couple of issues that I've found, firstly it tends to err on the low side where gradients are concerned and secondly it makes some weird assumptions as to the route that should be taken between way points. The second can be avoided...

My first full-size bike was my father's then almost forgotten Raleigh (a Super Sport as I learned in the last year or so) which I dragged out of our shed in my early teens and used for riding to school as it meant I avoided using a combination of 2 or sometimes 3 bus journeys in each direction...

Vitus. There was a time when I'd have killed (ok, you know what I mean) to own a Carbone 9 with Kronos forks. Even now I wouldn't turn one down given the chance.

My policy is to not buy anything other than basic plain moulded plastics from AliExpress. Safety-related and electrical stuff is definitely out. Some of the companies trading on there are well-known for marking their products with the 'China Export' CE symbols, something which is easily confused...

Then they mandated lawyer tabs and screwed things up for everybody.

Plain gauge 531 is 26.4 if I remember correctly. Mud guard eyes on the front drop outs but not on the rear suggests a fork replacement.

Challenge manufacture base is in Thailand as far as I know.