Emperor Time Trial Bike - 1976

Gracie

Retro Guru
Ten days in my watched items list and now three hours in my house having decided from the moment I saw the bike's listing that this would be mine. Love at first sight! It generally fits the bill for my bike preferences of British or Italian, something old yet tidy from one of the lesser known marques.

I think it has barely covered 100 miles as all the components are in great condition with just a few knocks to the paintwork from storage and the tubs have perished.

Just a couple of tweaks to make in the setup to get it comfortable for me such as dropping the stem lower and may well add a strada chainset, front mech and double shifters.

Let's play a bit of I-Spy with the components as I can get Campy-blind and miss the finer details that set the models apart.

Here it is...

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Re: Emperor Time Trial Bike - 1978

That is gorgeous.... Lovely bike.

Keep it single chainset though - pure time trial bike!
 
Re: Emperor Time Trial Bike - 1978

Theoldfm":1590pup7 said:
That is gorgeous.... Lovely bike.

Keep it single chainset though - pure time trial bike!

Thank you very much!

I will keep the parts so can revert to this set up but am justifying the changes as a hilly time trial set up.
 
Re: Emperor Time Trial Bike - 1978

Thank you for all the kind comments.

I am itching to do two things:

1) Ride her

2) Weigh her as the seller quoted 9.8kg and would like to check
 
Re: Emperor Time Trial Bike - 1978

Just out of interest what is the frame number?

I've had EMP.79.276 from new

Thinking we should start a register :cool:

Cheers

Mike
 
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