Concorde Squadra steel aero bike project

[pauln]

Lovely frame, I look forward to watching the build.

 

[Stempie]

I finally managed to found a pair of rims I think will look nice on the bike, namely a pair of vintage Mavic CD Ceramic rims. All that remains now is dropping them of at the wheel builder.

 

[kgt]

Amazing rims and hubs.

 

[latman]

By the way, what would be period correct pedals for this groupset?

I think Campy supplied re branded Look pedals back then

 

[latman]

Campagnolo must have supplied the pedal axles at one stage too

 

[Stempie]

The wheels were built during the weekend and I picked them up today. When I told the wheel builder (over 70 years old and still going strong) about my plans for a tan sidewall tire, he told me he had a NOS pair of tan sidewall Conti tires lying around. Luckily I was able to persuaded him to sell them to me .

Aside from the pedals, the bike is now pretty much finished and I am really happy with the end result. I will try and take some better pictures of the bike later this week.

 

[Stempie]

Some better shots of the bike (although still not as nice as I would like them to be).

 

[Stempie]

Today I drove down to Westauto's in Belgium, the main sponsor of the team this frame belonged to back in the days. I figured it would make for a cool background for some nice shots. IMHO they turned out really nice, finally . Below are a couple of pics, you can find the rest on my Flickr page.

 

[BobCatMax]

Did you show them the bike??

 

[Stempie]

Sure enough I didn't just park the bike against one of their vans and started making pictures . Unfortunately the guy who was involved with the cycling team back in the days was not present at the time.