My aluminium bike I made in 1984 ----Plus restoration

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frame waight

my frame is back together now,the frame with forks,headset and seat post is 2641 grams, no light weight but after 28 years is still in one piece.

 

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complete frame

The frame was baking in the Australian sun for 2 days so I wet rubbed with 2000 wet paper and then some cutting cream and final wax with my top shelf Auto Glym super resin polish (to expensive to buy I won it at a car show )assembled the head set and fork plus the seat post. Not sure of the brand of the forks I bought them about 20 years ago to replace the co mo ones I was using in 1985,my LBS got them in for me, can anyone identify them?

 

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details

a few closeups.

 

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complete frame

some more close ups

 

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bike resto

STI cable ajusters mounted on lug. As a side note the outdoor table I took these photos on today is the same one in the construction pictures at the beginning of my thread in 1984 !!!

 

[Shayne]

Looks like a SR fork. Stock fork on Cannondale among others in the early 90's

 

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Yes I you are right, Cannondale alloy forks, I found the sales docket today,I paid $120 in 1992 .

 

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wasnt happy with the cranks,i am a bit fussy found another set on ebay came the other day and they are even better than the photo,next best thing to NOS,not NOS so you dont want to take them out of the box but nice to put on a bike you intend to ride.

 

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put the shifters on the bar and new Cinelli tape,and new brake cables all eBay

 

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almost together now,got some feelers out for some NOS Mavic Open 4 CD see how that goes
may have to use the modern Open Pro,the rims i have are very worn on the braking area and would detract from bike,its that fussy thing again :roll: