Vitus as it best FKC9 Carbone Kevlar in 1988 KAS Spec

[gridno27]

..here is another Youngtimer Project - the 1988 Vitus FKC9 "carbon fibre tubes meets alloy"

this is a beautiful Replica of Sean Kelly's KAS Team bike winning Paris-Nice 1988

The frame set incl. seat post I found in Poland for pocket money, the new set of decals made by dizzibird
The MAVIC components are coming mostly from France and from an Retrobike user here (thanks for the front derailleur)
Technical Specification as follows

Frame set VITUS FCKC-9 Kevlar/Carbone, RH 53
Fork VITUS 979 Aluminium
decals KAS Vitus / MAVIC
headset Mavic 305
stem MAVIC 370, 95mm
bar MAVIC 350 - 420 mm
tape in Velox white
seat post VITUS original 25.0 mm
saddle Selle San Marco Concor
brakes MAVIC 451 Aero (Dia Compe)
shifters MAVIC 820 (Simplex)
brak calibers MAVIC 440 SSC
bottle cages TA Specialites
front derailleur Mavic 861
Crank set MAVIC 630 - double 53/42z
Bottom bracket Mavic 612, axle 116 mm
Pedals MAVIC 640 SSC inkl. Christophe cages
stripes Christophe, white leather
quick releaser MAVIC origin
tubulars Vittoria Corsa SC
Rims MAVIC SSC tubular bleu
hubs MAVIC RD 500 front and rear
Cassette Maillard 7-speed screwed cogs
rear derailleur MAVIC 851 SSC
chain vintage looking 7-speed
Total weight 8.93 Kgs - really

... and here the pics

 

[gridno27]

here some additional closer pics

 

[bduc61]

Re:

lovely

nice tribute to french components "know how" ( apart from saddle and tubulars )

saddly now you can't really build a full french road bike :?

 

[oonaff]

i really like the detailed lines of this build and of coarse that unusual stem,i wondered how it loosend off.
so nice to see a dovetailed woodworking concept applied to a precision engineer'd piece
pardon if i seem a bit picky but the inner tube valves could be shorter

 

[latman]

Vey nice , I thought the carbon frames used a 23mm seat post ?

 

[Stempie]

Lovely bike~!

 

[Woz]

Quality!

 

[gridno27]

Re: Re:

lovely

nice tribute to french components "know how" ( apart from saddle and tubulars )

saddly now you can't really build a full french road bike :?

... if I found a set of Wolber tubulars in acceptable conditions - but Sean Kelly normally used a Selle San Marco saddle
So it will be very difficult to build a French only bike. (i.e. MAVIC 451 brake Levers produced by Italian manufacturer Dia Compe)

 

[cchris2lou]

yes very nice .

 

[latman]

Re: Re:

lovely

nice tribute to french components "know how" ( apart from saddle and tubulars )

saddly now you can't really build a full french road bike :?

you could fit a reydel or corima saddle and Wolber tubs to this era bike