A few more evenings spent tinkering this week. My beautiful Dura Ace aero seatpost is too short for my long legs with this frame, so I bought a Nitto S65 as a suitably classic looking replacement.
It came packed in what looks like the Japanese equivalent of the Financial Times!
The quality of Nitto's metal components is absolutely superb. Well worth the money in my opinion.
The DA rear mech I have has a few scuffs and marks so I dissembled and cleaned it and started work polishing out the worst scrapes.
I am going to build up my DA 7400 hubs with Ambrosio Excellence rims; I bought a modern set which look like this;
The graphics are too flashy and modern for this build so I sourced an excellent set of repro vintage decals from Ebay.
After painstakingly scraping off the old decals, cleaning the rims and then affixing the new, they look the part!
Very happy with these and now ready for some wheelbuilding next week.