Colnago Super 1978 Build. Part 2 of 2 Complete restoration 

Love the channel John, Bike looks great.. ✌️❤️😁

I’ve replaced many spokes and trued up many wheels. Someday I’ll get the nerve/confidence to lace an entire wheel. That was cool watching you do that. Also, the yellow vintage bar tape looks perfect on the Colnago. 😎👍

I like your method for keeping the fixed cup wrench from slipping. Thanks.

Beautiful, brings back great memories for me too! Thx

20 + years bike service dept experience here and you are always spot on with your builds and tool useage Good job !!! Personally I run the rear brake cable housing on the left side of the stem and the front brake housing on the right side of the stem both on top of the bars . The crisscross I find pleasant to the eye

"Four Grunts Tight" You just set my new BB cup torque standard 😃

There was no lightweight carbon fibre back then but for sure the bikes were way more elegant.

By the way do what ever you want to your bikes , and have fun doing it. That's y bikes come in all All the different colors shapes And sizes So we can Rebuild them and have fun with them... Thanks for all you do on a channel.

You set your handle bars and levers just how i did on my bikes ,i liked to have the top of the bars quite flat as a spent most of my time on top of the bars and hands on the hoods😊

i love the wolber rims!

tape looks good the color it is.

White bar wrap on the Raleigh

GEE-PEE-EMMAY - like GPM - Gran Premio Montagna...like King of the Mountain. I was the guy who quoted CAMPAGNOLO's instructions for lever placement - if you don't want to follow 'em, that's on you though you could always do what I do - rotate the bar in the stem just a bit to have the levers in the right place on the bar AND the right place under your hands. Win-win! Otherwise, very nice-looking project - BRAVO!

Lovely Colnago. I always liked the Benotto bar tape in bright pink and wrapped as you do from middle to end. That way it stayed put without needing adhesive tape (which you can add as a finishing touch if you like).

Great build video. Brings back lot’s of memories of wrenching on these bikes back in the day! Currently restoring a PX10E.

Love your bike!

This is great. My dad's 1980's Eddy Merckx, with custom paint & Super Record, is sitting in my garage in need of someone to restore it and turn it into something I can enjoy. It would be really cool to have someone passionate work on it.

I learned to build wheels when i was working for a bicycle wholesaler back in the 80s. It's a satisfying activity.

Great bike, thanks 🎉🎉🎉

Muy buen trabajo felicidades saludos desde los angeles California

it turned out nicely!

That Colnago would look good with yellow cable housing.

Hi John, I had always wrapped tape from the end of the bar to the middle. So next time, I'll try that reverse method ... seems just as practical wrt to pushing 'down' on the wrap direction, plus it might eliminate the need for tape at the end (the middle). Good stuff! Tony (CR member).

Great video

Looking at the block cassette reminded me of the gearing on my Shogun Samurai from many years ago. It had a seven speed 12-21cassette and was paired with 52-42 chainrings. You seemed to run out of gears pretty quickly when the road pointed up! It might also explain why there were a lot less cyclists in the hills back then

I remember getting my first campag brakes I didn’t take them out of the box for a week I just loved looking at them🤣love the colour of the bike 👍

I watch from Burma 😊

Summer of '90 and '91 I rode with a 13-18 6sp. 53T ring got a well-deserved vacation!

I think a series on a full restoration how to Including lacing wheels and full set up from an average bike to a good working bike would be cool! I can only imagine how long it would take to put a series like that together however some of us watching and at the stage of life am at where the only affordable vintage bikes can get hands on are a little more beat up than the ones you tend to find, it would be inspirational to see a full transformation of something a bit more beaten.

I put the hoods on using the same process,but with the aid of some dishwashing liquid,works well if it is really tight fit

Nice.

Yes, yellow. 😊👍

Black tape on the Raleigh. I think the Campy Monoplanar brakes were the prettiest. Thanks again for a great video. Love your bike collection. Until next week.

That crank is amazing. And black tape on the Raleigh.

I would add, black tape, with, gold shown ng through

Hello John from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Like the channel and the retro bikes/components

Man that bar tape takes me back , Got to say the modern tapes a bit more forgiving on the hands . Black or white bar tape on that Raleigh

Great video, nice job. I have Ambrosio rims on my trek 2300, they are really nice rims, and the black anodised finish is still great at 32 years old with no fading.

To your question about the handle bar tape for your Raleigh racer: I would put it in black color.

Ficou mesmo maravilhosa ❤

Nice work John!👍 Can't go wrong matching tape to decals on the Raleigh.

Thanks for taking the time adjusting the brakes, I learned a lot. Also, I like that you have your pedals that the use all the time on the older bikes. I have one wall hanger that I can't find a home and it hurts that I don't like to ride it. 84 Raleigh Road Ace with all AX components.

Great video and very nice Colnago! As far as the bar tape, I always like to use a color that matches the decals or secondary color, such as on the head tube or striping. I have a bright pearl green Allegro with red bar tape. Sounds weird, but it works with the fades and pinstriping. Also I use (steal) my wife's hairspray to install brake lever hoods. They slide right on when you're fast enough before it dries, then helps to keep them put. Thanks for the video!

Handlebar tape should only ever be black. Wolber 58 Super Champions rims were my favorites. Built dozens and dozens of those up into touring wheels back in the day, like us old guys say. Closest to those now are one of the offerings from Velo Orange. Suntour Superbe Pro gives the Campagnolo Record brakes some competition for being the prettiest brake. Have a set on one of my bikes and they still make me smile.

Oh, wow. I've always loved this channel but when you said, air-cooled VW's I knew we are brothers. I'll share my Beatle story sometime. All the best.

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That was a perfect build. Just one tip. It's better to put a washer for seatpost clamp bolt so you don't scratch the frame. Hope it helps.

was thinking basic black bar tape but it does look glorious with the yellow instead.

Wow awesome classic build dude.. love the channel 😊 wheels lacing is such an art.. man your garage is so cool.. fellow Campagnolo here ❤ Hope you’re having a great 2024. Pete 🚴🏻😃👍🥇

Yellow bar tape!

John, I've been following your journey related to this bike. I have mixed feelings about the frame color, but it is a really nice bike. Nice rims, and it's fortunate decals are still there. Where would you go for replica decals now that VeloCals has ceased operations? Ah yes, square-taper BB, the only BB designed by the angels. For the Raleigh, get a brown suede Selle Italia Turbo saddle and use brown leather bar tape or brown leather sew-on grips.If the seat color is too light, you can darken with a judicious application of whatever suede conditioner you like.

The color is meh but with new polished components it looks good great job😎

Purple tape . Thanks Eric😅

beautiful. would you give us some tips on updating a vintage bike with new parts?

Nice. You could have tried the yellow bars on the Raleigh before you wired them! I personally like the black though. Its how we would have rolled in the UK back then (none of that euroflash for us)!

Nice production. I've been meaning to ask... why don't you ever use a grease or anti seize when installing the bottom bracket cups?

Did you actually grease the Cup threads when putting in the BB ? I'm going to an estate sale this weekend to look at a Colnago Super (I think) . It's very clean looking but they only showed 1 picture but I'm pretty sure it's all Campy. I don't often subscribe but with your love of Italian I just had to support the channel. Incidentally I think the 1973 Masi Gran Criterium was the finest bicycle ever made. JMO. P.S. the high flange hubs are fantastic.

Thats some thin bar tape

Another awesome video. What brand is the bar tape you used? I’m looking for shinier yellow tape just like the one here for my current project.

Wow , so much character with the retro bike , these carbon bikes look bland in comparison and ironically will be landfill where as the classic bikes tend to live on , great video, am I a little jealous of your bikes of course not a lot jealous much more appropriate.

Those Fiamme Red Label rims are fairly soft. They did not hold up well on the awful Chicago area roads in the early 1980’s. You were lucky if you get a season out of a pair.

Seriously beautiful build. Love the vintage stuff! But I do have to say that the cable routing behind the bars is atrocious. Apart from having zero mechanical advantage, it always looks like a mistake to me...but who am I? I've only been a bike mechanic for 33 years.😉

If I had the Raleigh, I'd use black tape and black hoods, with a yellow matching waterbottle cage. PS. John, if you ever need some rims from the 80's, I've got some Wolber Aubisque, with the big WOLBER letters by the spoke holes. (never used), let me know. PSS. When you built the wheels, did you use the old school trick and use washers to keep the J bend from being able to move at all?

Yellow match the decal

Those brakes are backwards compared to the side-pull brakes that I have (I have two different models of them made by Dia-Compe). With mine, the brake cable attaches on the left side of the front brake and the right side of the rear brake, which makes sense, at least for the US market (I don't know about other countries), because the de facto standard here is to have the front brake lever on the left and the rear brake lever on the right. Before I saw this video I didn't even know anyone made side-pull brakes that were the other way around. Which configuration is more common?

Don't you have a Peanut Butter wrench? I like using the nylon washers (Minute 12-14) rather than the steel Campagnolo. That would have been great in the olden days. Oh, well. The Super Record that I had (70s') had cut outs on the chain guide. Looks like a Nuovo Record front. But, they worked as well and just a few grams heavier. I used to build a lot of wheels when I wrenched in Carbondale (70s) 30 minutes or less. Now I take my time 2 hours plus, great for chilling. Support your local shops. You can't learn everything off of videos and the mail order can't help you. My folks (Trek Atlanta) helped me lace hidden cables in my Bianchi, run BB tap, derailleur hangers and everything else that I don't have the tools or eyesight for. 😞Your LBS prices are real close on-line (shipping, handling) and consider that you employ folks and taxes support your communities.

Where do you get your brake lever hoods?

Was that CampagYELO tape?

Where can I buy parts from you? What's your website?

I have a better way to put the hood on, I use plain baby powder and going just a little slower over the sharp edges.

Definitely yellow. Seat, tape and housing.