Mission accomplished...

Out of water carriers..

All of the three Colnago builds

ended up in apparently similar results: Art Decor Frames with Carbon wheels and Campagnolo outfits. Still, all three are slightly different and each bike has its own characteristics. But there are two things the three have in common: The handle bars, which need no further introduction, and.... the bottle holders: The perfectly shaped Supacaz fly bottle cage. Superbly designed in carbon and hand painted with a flawless finish; a true masterpiece and almost impossible to find nowadays. I was lucky with Tecnos 2 to even get them in an outlet sale in The Netherlands, and with the Master it took quite some time before I finally found a set in black and white in Italy. On the current quest however, these were the most difficult parts to find. I wanted black and red but did not succeed despite endless search efforts. Then I decided to look out for black and white again, as white was already predominant on the 2000.  But with no result. In the end, the last available set was spotted in Spain, but in straight plain matt carbon only. So I decided to take them to exchange the set with the black & white from the Master, where the matt carbon would fit with the wheels anyway.. And so, the last building exercise was concluded..

Gear...

Compact wheel-frame setup..

Having no concerns like with Tecnos 2, or the need for cassette adjustment as on the Master,  this time the gear mounting never had been easier. The different cassette composition on the Master had resulted in quite some efforts to finally get rid of a slight rattle, which upon fine tuning continuously returned in either higher or lower gear sections. The positioning of a 0,5 mm steel spacer ring behind the most inner largest gearwheen finally did the trick. Which, considering the alterations made on the cassette, still makes no sense to me, but it somehow worked. But this time with the 2000, it was a piece of cake by just following the manual and some slight finetuning only. 

A kind of plug and play in fact..

La silla roja...

On the two previous quests for saddles, 

I had already been very lucky with the NOS Selle from Italy on Tecnos 2 as well as the almost new Hoskar from the US on the Master, but the current third catch really takes the cake. Although not NOS or new, this flawless specimen from Spain via Ebay is such a perfect match, that it's almost unbelievable. The red color is 100% identical to the frame,  

as are the colors of the embroideries: Yellow and blue naturally.  The three primary colors, all prominently present on the frame. Not a real coincidence most likely, as San Marco is no doubt well familiar with the coloring schemes of 

Colnago. But still an unexpected rare trophy.