Brian, Thanks for the good news about the Nervex shell, and you confirmed what I suspected about the bb numbers. The old gentleman's red pinstriping is indeed still visible. It was on my old 69 too. This was all done by the same old guy, him and him alone??? Pretty cool stuff. What about the long top tube.. Normal? Custom? Since it is about 3 cm longer than what would normally be comfortable for me, can I simply go down to a 70 instead of my normal 100 mm stem, if I need to? First though, I'm definitely going to experiment with the 100 that came with the bike. Thanks, again...
Best regards,
Mark