Hello,
I have been working in several projects at the same time and one of them is nearly finish now.
I bought a 1991 Dolomite bike in not really good conditions some months ago. It has been bought from the original owner and the bike was well used. The green area color, the decals and the fork were in a good conditions taking in account is a bike 23 years old. However the white area was in poor condition, no paint on the bottom bracket area and bubbles in several places (Rear brake hose hole, horizontal tube...).
I decided to keep the bike as original as possible not making a complete repaint of the frame, just fixing the damaged areas. It help me that the decals were nearly complete.
At the end the white color is fully repaint (keeping the original Attitude decals), the magenta is repaint in certain areas and the green just on the junction with the white. The fork is with the original painting just clear coat film is applied on as well as on the complete frame.
Once the job of the frame were on going the question was what components are necessary to build up the frame. There are no so many components can suit well on a Dolomite IMHO. The two preferred options to me were the Camapgnolo Centaur-Euclid or the shimano XT-730-32-35 group. I decided to go for the XT because I had some components already available at home, it is more easy to find and it less expensive. I tried to keep the original Klein Attitiude Team USA specification as per 1990/91 brochure.
I am still assembling the bike but all the components are available and I hope to finish in the next days. Better pics will come soon.
Thanks
I have been working in several projects at the same time and one of them is nearly finish now.
I bought a 1991 Dolomite bike in not really good conditions some months ago. It has been bought from the original owner and the bike was well used. The green area color, the decals and the fork were in a good conditions taking in account is a bike 23 years old. However the white area was in poor condition, no paint on the bottom bracket area and bubbles in several places (Rear brake hose hole, horizontal tube...).
I decided to keep the bike as original as possible not making a complete repaint of the frame, just fixing the damaged areas. It help me that the decals were nearly complete.
At the end the white color is fully repaint (keeping the original Attitude decals), the magenta is repaint in certain areas and the green just on the junction with the white. The fork is with the original painting just clear coat film is applied on as well as on the complete frame.
Once the job of the frame were on going the question was what components are necessary to build up the frame. There are no so many components can suit well on a Dolomite IMHO. The two preferred options to me were the Camapgnolo Centaur-Euclid or the shimano XT-730-32-35 group. I decided to go for the XT because I had some components already available at home, it is more easy to find and it less expensive. I tried to keep the original Klein Attitiude Team USA specification as per 1990/91 brochure.
I am still assembling the bike but all the components are available and I hope to finish in the next days. Better pics will come soon.
Thanks