Hello, Listers.
I have just had an email reponse from the seller of this bike, in reply to my query about the bottom bracket threads.
As we all suspected, I think, the threads are standard BSA, and the bracket itself one of the Nervex Serie Legere ones...much in use in the UK in t he 50s and 60s.
I reckon that the likelihood of Altig Jnr specifying a BSA bracket thread w hen he probably intended to use Campag components is very unlikely.
There seems to be a rash of ex-Pro bikes coming on to the market in Europe these days...particularly from folks claiming they are mechanics..claiming good provenance. Last year I was offered a rare frame, allegedly used by Re ne Vietto, sourced from the mechanic who worked for Vietto's co-equipiers, the Lazarides brothers.
I examined the frame, bars, stem, saddle etc and they were very obviously q uite fraudulent. The chap who had offered me the goods in all good faith, k nowing that I collect this type of material, took quite a hit on his purcha se, and is left with goods worth very little indeed.
Caveat Emptor
Norris Lockley..Settle UK