It always kind of amuses me when I see these videos and the "before" condition is usually far nicer than any of the bikes I've ever owned. I'm glad to see someone takes care of their bikes better than I do!
My absolute favorite customer restoration thus far. Way to go to both you and Simon! What an incredible feature. The customer should be immensely proud to have yall work on their equipment and to own such an astonishing ride!
Thoroughly enjoyed this one. Loved the sympathetic restoration to this wonderful vintage bike - full of character, charm and chrome. The good old days when Campy reigned supreme. Please, more of these!
Evening Lee & Simon 👋. One of the best restoration bike videos to date. A stunning turnaround. The time taken was definitely 100% worth it. I hope you had a cheeky pint after it was all complete! 🍻👍 Have a great weekend, gents!
Beautiful restoration. I can only imagine how delighted the owner was when they saw the result of the work you put in. Hopefully you get to 50K subscribers (and beyond) soon - you certainly deserve it
What a monumental service. So professional and so quality. I recently did a similar (but much more amateur) service on my 1979 Nishiki International. The groupset on that bike is bulletproof and cleans and lubes up really nicely. Nothing beats the simplicity and serviceability of some downtube friction shifters!
Your basic concept is generally the same but due to your craftsmanship it never gets anywhere close to boring, just simply love your and Simon’s work. Keep it up👍🏻 Greetings from Amsterdam👋🏻 PS: What I do miss lately is your eclectic watch collection playing a role in the video’s😉
I can absolutely relate to loving polishing those bare aluminium parts, before everything went anodised and painted. Polishing the big meaty alloy bits on my old early ‘90s Deore XT groupset used to be the icing on the cake after a post-ride cleanup.
Nice bike, despite the mix of components (which was quite common in the eighties and nineties). Campa C-Record crankset (but BB bearings look like Mirage), headset C-Record or Chorus, Veloce front and Mirage rear mech, Dura Ace 7400 brakes (which are excellent). I guess this bike was originally completely C-Record, brakes were an update back in the day, because they were simply performing better than the Campy brakes. Derailleurs were probably replaced by the cheaper Mirage iterations due to wear. I love the satin polished finish of the Cinelli stem . So this bike has it´s history an is now ready for the next 30 years, which is a good thing! Excellent video! The owner will be delighted. This brings back memories of my early days in cycling in the 1990.
Glorious. I wish I could like this more than once. Like a lot of professionals, you make the difficult seem straightforward. That bearing work was something else. Well done gents 👊
Fabulous work on a beautiful bike. I always think you get the balance right on these older bikes, great attention to detail but maintaining originality.
I bought my first proper road bike in the early 1980's. It was custom built by my local bike shop and I remember that the frame was glossy black with hand painted golden detailing where the tubes where joined. I also remember that the groupset was Shimano but I am not sure what model - I am guessing 105 Golden Arrow - and of course chrome toe clip pedals with leather straps, and a leather saddle. Today I ride a carbon frame bike with Di2 and hydraulic brakes, and I must say that it is a lot nicer to ride, but not as stylish and good looking though 😄
Many interesting features on this bike. Weird pedal shape, very smart brake pads (doesn't need to unscrew to change it), exotic colour combination... Congratulations to the owner and congratulations for you, guys, bikespeeds rules!
Brilliant restoration, Lee and Simon! I'm sure the owner of this bike was really happy with your work. As for the oldest bike in my modest collection, I have a Vitus 979 aluminum bike from the 80's as racing by one of my favorite riders, Sean Kelly. But as fate would have it where his bike was gold mine is red because that's what they had in my size. I would have loved to have the Mavic groupset he raced on but availability and price ruled that out so I was able to get my hands on a Shimano Dura Ace groupset from the 80's. I know people say "Oh, Vitus aluminum frames are flexy" and the professional riders changed their bikes out every race season, but the bike is lite and a pleasure to ride. At 65, I don't race for a living, I just like my nice bicycles and enjoying the ride. Cheers my friends!
My dads bike.... its a early 80's. Portuguese Orbita. Not a very well known brand outside of my home country. I am mentioning this because this year as a christmas gift to myself, i am going to show one of your videos to my local bike mechanic. I am hoping he kan do something like this for me... my dad has been gone since 2017. And before that we never had the change of riding together all that mutch, something i am doing my best to correct with my son. The objective is that we get to go on a ride for new year me and him. Him on my Sintesy that i have since the early 00's and me on my dads. From Fatima till Nazaré to see the surfers. Will be a good one...
Great job! These Campagnolo bottom brackets, apart from having dual metric and imperial unit sizes, have the tendancy to unscrew themselves if they are not tightened correctly. One solution people used was to put some glue on the threads..
That was a fabulously enjoyable and relaxing video to watch. Well done to the owner for taking it somewhere it would be taken care of, and well done Bikespeeds for being that place.
Lovely to see a resto like this! I've recommissioned my own bike (owned it for around 13 years now) on a budget and I still have upgrades planned. I have some ways to go but my trusty Nishiki XC3 is becoming the perfect winter beater in arctic conditions.
Great Video. Always enjoy the vintage restorations . My 1984 Ciocc and 1990 Concorde are still in super condition and ridden all season. But, have gone through a modernization upgrade, through the years. Thanks. KB
amazing video and restoration as usual! thx for putting the time in sharing these with us.
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Lovely restoration! Campag. derailleur cable adjusters are prone to breaking; I've had three break over the years but (luckily) managed to tease the broken threads out with a screwdriver. It's best I think to retain as much thread as possible inside the mech.
Regarding the bearing extraction, there's a different style of extractor you can get with an expanding mandrel that fits inside of the inner race and flares out to grab hold of it. Wheels Manufacturing makes them in various sizes.
Another Campy beauty! fabulous work on the light polishing, Campy stuff just goes forever with some love...Too bad the brakes are not the period Veloce's from that gruppo, they were cool looking, beefy caliper arms...great work, really enjoyed this one!
Amazing restoration job, loved every second of it! Beautiful bike, with a beautiful paintjob. My first road bike was a 1994 Giant Cadex CFR2 which was one of the first bikes with a semi carbon frame - the 3 main frame tubes are carbon, while the front & rear forks, and connectors are metal, so an interesting design on that one. It came with the old 8 speed Shimano 105 groupset. Began my cycling journey on that one so it's a pretty important bike for me :) Still sitting in my garage, really want to give it a nice restoration job as well and hang it up on a wall at some point. Cheers!
Loving your work once again but a small point, on the electrical tape on the handlebars I always finish with the loose end under the bar as you do but facing AWAY from the front of the bike. A bit OCD I know.
Epic restoration and what an amazing job. Would love to find out how you approach pricing out a restaurarion job like this? The customer must have loved the end product. Great job Lee and quality editing Simon 🎉
Those old Campy thumb adjusters are famous for snapping off and then being impossible to find the correct replacement. Happened to my Veloce 9-speed. I solved it by removing the spring leaving the top part of the adjuster in place, and pulling strong tension on the cable before clamping it in. I then have a down tube barrel adjuster to pull more tension if necessary. I guess that wouldn't work here with down tube shifters.
Beautiful restoration! Will owner be likely to do some minor paint touch ups in chipped areas? Would imagine that will help preserve the steel tubing and enhance it a wee bit more.
This is exactly the vintage of bicycle I like seeing restored. I’m in the process of restoring my ‘88 Shogun Katana and ‘99 Torelli Strada. I hope you get more like this in the shop. Thanks for sharing. Btw what grit or compound did you use on the polishing wheel to shine up the components?
