First off, I know the dates don't match up, but I started my blog on my Facebook account and a good friend suggested a public blog, so here I am.
I picked up two vintage bikes to begin building a copy of Eddy Merckx’s Molteni team racing bike from the 1974 Giro d'Italia.
The frame I am going to restore did not have any decals on it, or if it did they were covered up when the frame was “uglied” up by its original owner. The frame is Italian made, and was told it was built of Columbus tubing. It has chromed Campagnolo dropouts on the frame and fork, which generally is a tell tale sign that the bike is first off a quality build, and two made of a good steel as the dropouts were expensive then and not put on every run of the mill bike. In the seventies it wasn't uncommon to see stamped steel drops on frames, so those that wore Campagnolo were high end!
The frame itself looks like it was built in the mid to late seventies. It does not have a front derailleur braze on mount, and the brake cable guides are of the small variety. The geometry on the bike is virtually identical to my Colnago C40. It is very well made, but I can’t at this point say for certain that it is, or was built by Colnago, so I will need to research to see what it could be.
I forgot to take a “before” picture of the frame prior to stripping it. The below picture is of a partially stripped frame.
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