Antipodes

Come December 1st, I will be the recipient of this fine piece of steel:







Davidson Impulse w/ Campy Record headset and BB.
65cm seat tube and 61 top tube. This will be perfect for all of my 193cm, as my 62cm bikes are definitely a little on the small side, and my winter beater 67cm Norco Avanti SL is admittedly too big.
Cyclotoine the good man organised it all for me and is bringing it over when he moves here late Nov/early Dec.
Any suggestions for parts donations to this handcrafted beauty will be much appreciated...

-Leigh

Skip Magnuson

Nice looking frame - The Davidson is a great bike.
Skip Magnuson
Spokane, WA

TMB

Lovely bike.

Funny you post this, one of the regulars over on the Serotta forum posted recently about the same thing

https://www.serotta.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35481

Let me know when you get it what you may be needing. I have a large and growing stash of parts that is threatening to take over my garage and I am just about to take another couple of bikes apart and possibly (!) sell (!) the frames.

Very nice indeed.

TimJ

Nice bike.

I was in that guy's shop just last week. He's got a big collection of really cool bikes, a lot of english builders if I recall and some cool stuff of his like a fixed gear racing tandem, I think it was. Cool find.

cyclotoine

I took a closer look to discover the BB is in fact Athena. I don't think that was a deal make or breaker though. OCB has lots of nice campy cranks right now including some 110BCD triples. Only problem is they are a little pricey... like $100 no rings or $125 for a set of Athena's with rings... maybe you can get a recyclistas discount, I dunno...

Edit: I have a ton of parts also, so we can have a look through my stash for the build.

TMB

What shop is it??

TimJ

Elliot Bay cycles on Western near... I dunno, you can look it up. It's a small shop and doesn't have cool old parts or anything like that, in fact they don't seem to stock hardly any parts. But they got super-cool bikes hanging up.

TMB

Didn't realize it was Elliott Bay, been there many times.

Antipodes

Admittedly, I'm not super keen on the looks of modern Campy cranks. Hopefully I can get my Super Record 175mm crankset to work with that BB. Retrogrouch? Yeah, maybe a little...but they look sooo good. Maybe I'll remove the anodising on them...

cyclotoine

Nein, I assume the athena is 111mm, but I'll have to check, you need a 114.5mm record BB. I have to have a look see, I may have a BB that will work, if not cups, at least the spindle.

If you are going with old campy on this rig, I can help

marqueemoon

Great frame. You will love it.

melville

The super cool bikes hanging up either belong to one of the owners (not Bill Davidson--last I knew he had only one bike!) or are on consignment.

The cool old parts thing is slim pickings because the shop only opened in 1983 (Davidson had been building for 10 years before that) and unlike other 'pro' shops, they actually sold the stuff and moved the inventory. I worked there in the early 90s, about when the OP's frame was made (1 1/8 top tube, pattern of decals) and at that point, because even Campy was starting to change stuff every year, most high end stuff was ordered per build. The suppliers usually beat the frame shop in getting stuff to us.

I'm guessing the OP's 65cm is center to center. Looks like what we sold as a 66cm (only even sizes over 60cm). Nice score! My Stiletto (crit model) and custom track frame are the best bikes I will ever own.

Later

Mel

stringbreaker

Nice stuff Looks like its gonna be a killer ride