hello jon i bought a bike fully equiped with a 7 speed dura ace group at the weekend , hardly used and in great condition. i have not seen the components in the flesh before and find them very well finished. they were on a nice red vitus aluminium frame which was the original frame as it had the dura ace sticker. a stunning looking bike and all for 80 euros. my original point was going to be that the italians were not overte to putting shimano on there bikes as i had a ernesto "colnago" frame which had the dura ace badge on it which i thought was unuseual. maybe he thought it was good stuff too. i like the thought of the chrome frame with these parts though as it would ooze quality.
hope this is of interest or help.
dan evans
aqitaine
france
CR List Friends,
I happened on a beautiful complete 6 speed Dura Ace group and bought it. I received it last night and it is definitely some fine equipment in excellent shape.
One problem I have, is figuring out what to put it on. All my frames are (with 3 exceptions) either very French or very Italian.
Here are the candidates (all steel lugged of course): 63 Paramount 69 PX-10 85 PZ-10 Mid 80s Bianchi Veloce Late 80s Bianchi Stelvio Late 90s Masi Team 3V Late 90s Ciocc 72 Chrome Carlton Cobra Old Olmo 70s Speedwell
The Olmo, Masi, Ciocc, PZ-10, Bianchi's, and Paramount all came with Campy and scream give me Campy! So I have been slowing gathering up Campy components especially for the PZ-10, Paramount, 3V and Ciocc.
I also have a very nice and complete Shimano 600 Arabesque group - same (nice) problem.
I'm thinking of playing musical groups for a while just to experiment. The only one really not readily compatible is the PX-10.
Tell me what would you do? I'm sure you will have different opinions, but I'm curious.
Thank you,
Jon M. Crate Marietta, Georgia USA
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