Critique my Rabobank build please..

Seanaus

Dirt Disciple
My 1996 Tecnos Rabobank is my first serious attempt at building something more or less period correct.
I know there is a bit of Rabobank knowledge here, so what are your thoughts?

Every picture I could find that was verifiable as 1996 had white bar tape and silver cable outers. And obviously it should have some Time TBT sprint pedals...... Wheels are Open Pro on Dura Ace hubs which seemed a reasonable choice. One thing I can't figure out is what was the sponsored bidon cage? Again, the shiny Elite one seemed fair. Thanks for your opinions, regards Sean.
 

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Nice job done. Compliments... Indeed it are only details. Brake cables on those bikes were 'standard' Shimano, so gray/silver. Non of the pro riders at that time in the team did brake the 'Italian' way, as in front brake by right lever and rear brake by the left one. Pedals were at first pretty indivudual but later on Shimano/Look. However Tacx was sponsor for the water bottles the water bottle holders were at first often Elite Ciussi ones. Later they did turned over to Tacx due to sponsor contracts. To my opinion, non of the modern carbon water bottle holder are satisfied. In case of a 'chute' they do not hold bottles anyway and they are all over the place. No better ones than the old REG and TA ones from the seventies. The Ciussi's are a nice alternative...
 

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