chickendrumsticks
Senior Retro Guru
Well done Jim(?). Certainly got a bargain there. We do love to see what you're doing with it. Plenty of pictures please.
CBT Italia
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chickendrumsticks
Senior Retro Guru
GARBINI??? Several thoughts: Paolo Garbini ran a bike shop and the Soho Cycle Club BITD. There's a bike shop in Ferrara, Italy called Garbini. There's a Italian racer by the name of Roberto Garbini.
My guess would be this is a bike made by CBT for said shop in Ferrara and panto'd for them.
Hello anyone who's interested and thanks for the Garbini input. I'm going with the Italian bike shop theory - if only because it sounds like good back story.
Just a quick progress update. Frame is back from paint (Colourtech in Dartford) - a gorgeous candy mid blue. Had to paint the rear stays but managed to save the chrome dropouts and the chrome forks cleaned up nicely. It really is a lovely thing and feels like the lightest steel frame I've come across so far. I'm using a mix of Campag components that I already had in the cupboard- Victory headset, super record front and rear mech, polished victory calipers and levers, polished record strada crank with drilled chainwheels and a polished 3TT stem with Cinelli 'crest' Giro D'Italia bars. Wheels are gray Mavic rims on polished victory hubs. I scored an immaculate black suede seat with CBT Italia branding so I'll cover the bars in stitched black suede to match. Buggering about with the bottom bracket at the moment to get the right chain run but none of the combinations I have in stock work so I'm waiting for a new axle and end cups to arrive.
I'll upload pictures if I can work out how
Jim
