The thing I love most about this bike is that you built exactly what you wanted and didn’t rationalise it with seemingly obvious modern touches like a threadless 1 1/8" steerer and quill stem. It’s an easy temptation when you’re building from scratch, but this bike is so beautiful for not doing that. I friggin love it eh.
Churs Pete. Your absolutely right tho, when you first sit down and put pen to paper planning for your first build its a crazy feeling. So many options, some a little bit more optimistic then others. I’m sure you experienced similar when building the Loco.
Rides great, smooth rolling on the 28’s. Shifts as you would expect, not perfect but Campagnolo didn’t have slant parallelogram mechs. The first couple of rides it was a little fiddly but I have no troubles now.
Columbus Zona, but I decided to use the 1970’s tubing decals as its a bit more fitting then the newer tubing decals.
Thanks all for the support. I’m more then happy with the finished product. I have put together/ridden so many bikes over the years but nothing comes close to throwing a leg over something I built with my own hands.
For those wondering about the name, its clearly not my own. Faraci is my Nonna’s maiden name. She’s amazing & I am lucky to have such heritage, so I thought it was fitting to represent my work.
Yeah! Come on with #2!
So good Gyp
Perfect proportions, nailed it!
This build is incredible. Love those bar end shifters.
I’m restoring some old French randos & Cinelli roadies, similar vintage & appreciate the attention to detail - brilliant.
This bike is LAME it looks like your bike has suffered a front end impact with that atrocious amount of toe overlap. Also why are you riding around in the big chain ring on the front and the big chain ring on the back are you some kind of vintage mechanically inept fred?