Upgrading an Austro Daimler Vent Noir from the original 1st gen Dura Ace to a Dura Ace 7700 9 spped STI group. Going to be kind of a rat rod look. It really needs to be stripped and repainted, but don’t have the heart to strip off the original decals and hand painting around the lugs. My first retro upgrade to STI’s. Going to be a great ride. Pics to come.

If it’s a road double you’ll probably need the 109.5 width. I’ve been through that problem.

Replaced the Cycloid chainrings that came with my Jo Routens with nice round TA ones. Kept the 165mm TA cranks

Very good idea. Feed the all thread through the post, screw on the nut n washers through the BB then hammer away. Did you use a heavy pipe to slide on the upper end? Bit of pig iron? Someone to hold the frame while you hammered?

Still working on identifying year and model of a frame given to me a few weeks ago. Serial number on the seat tube 6039. No Other identifiers except the five holes on the head tube where the head badge would be.

Just as you mentioned, I feed the rod through, made sure I had washers that could pass the bottle mounts, put the nut on. I thought about using pipe with another nut and set of washers but did not. I just held the rod in one hand with the nut and washers about 12" inserted in the seat tube, I then held the the frame at the top portion of the seat tube in the other. Next was a two handed power drop, almost like a baseball swing. Then I tried to follow through with the frame hand and with the rod hand I did like check swings for impacting. The threads on the rod did provide substantial area for gripping, if they did not I would have gone the the route of having the pipe sleeve and nutted washers to slam against.

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If I go back to the Sugino seatpost I would fill the flutes with grease. IMO the Sugino was a horrible design for triathlon bikes. The transition from swim to run was a train wreck in slow motion. I think this was a common problem for the design, triathlon bike or not.

Continuing to fiddle with my International, now some attention to my front bag mount. I use a NOS Cannondale that I want to get off the handlebars. I was able to attach a Velo Orange stem mounted decaleur directly to the bag frame. You can see where I removed the original quick release mount.


A quick test suggests the bottom of the bag will rest nicely on my front rack. Next I have to swap out my brake cable hanger as the decaleur interferes with it. I have a narrow Mafac hanger somewhere, and I’m also going to try a couple of others.

Finally got around to tinkering with my main squeeze. Aside from a previous saddle swap, today has brought the first changes to take place since purchasing the bike early last December.

It started with a basic wipe down cleaning to address the past few months worth of winter commute dust and grime. But once I got going, I was a bit inspired to swap the cockpit out. Brakes too.

Git rid of these...





and these...





and replaced them with these...





and these...





and these!





The Superbe clamp band has a max diameter of 23.8 mm which was too small for the 24 mm Cinelli bars. My solution was to scavenge the clamps from a pair of banged up Shimano 600 levers. They just worked as they were wide enough to fit the bar, and they sat deep enough in the levers to mount. Here’s the SunTour bands which will now get stashed away, and a set of now defunct Shimanos.





Suppose I should get to the shop for some cable huh. I forgot that changing from aero to non-aero would require longer cables.

Nice save. It’s a little different from all the MTBs rolling out of your workshop!