A magnificent experience..

The three month period of searching combining, mounting and fitting was a great experience and truly engrossing. It was a highly educational and instructive exercise with an end result I am very happy with. I consider myself fortunate to have found exactly the frame and parts to my taste on this fantastic journey.. . I meanwhile spent as much time on the bike as I could and it's a perfect ride.  How lucky a man can be...

Chain, cables and collateral..

Considering all of the fitting and mounting challenges, there were two items where I had my concerns. One had been the crankshaft as described earlier, but that worked out perfectly well.. The other however was the space margin for the 10 speed chain running aside the dropout. That is; if positioned in the highest gear; running on both the large front-blade and smallest gearwheel on the cassette. Compared to the narrow 11 speed chain I was accustomed to, the Campa 10 speed chain certainly looked wider with the the closing pin even a bit protruding. Ingenious as it might be, I was a bit insecure about the Forza universal body, suitable for both Shimano and Campa cassettes. Although designed for 10 speed, Forza / Baufort was new to me and after all, this was a 28 year old steel frame. After mounting, the space margin between the dropout and chain closing pin looked just about sufficient, a small 2 mm approx, and after test riding and gear shifting all turned out to be just fine, to my great relief... So the last jobs to be done were the handlebar tape, black naturally, the positioning of the cables and fine-tuning of both the gearshifting and brakes.  Exercises requiring precision and all in all a rather time consuming affair..

All there was left now were drink bottles and bike pump holders. With the last, I had very good experiences with the Lyzene Carbon Drive Lite. A very convenient and compact little pump, to be easily positioned next to the vertical bottle holder on the seat tube. Regarding the bottle holders I was fortunate once again.. Upon searching the web, I immediately noted the carbon gold Supacaz holder which would be a really perfect fit with the black Colnago mark on the gold area of the down and seat tubes around the bottle holder area. But it turned out to be completely sold out. Also at webshops promising to have them in stock, so it turned out after ordering. But upon re-checking again after our two-week Holiday I was lucky to find a set, even in an outlet sale, notably at the webshop of the famous Van Herwerden brothers in Voorburg NL; an old shop well-known for building their own racing bike frames back in the seventies and eighties. I was very happy to receive these magnificient high quality super lightweight carbon bottle holders which were the most perfect fit imaginable. But that was it. After three months, all of a sudden the end of this exciting period was there... The bike was finished and ready..