Tag: 1st Gen Super Record
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1974 SBDU SB9 – An Update Before Restarting The Restore
I’ve clearly taken the rebuild of my SB9 very slowly. Having well over a year away from my bikes hasn’t helped! At one point, parts from SB9, essentially the 1st generation Super Record Pat73 and 74 date coded groupset, were strewn all over the workshop floor. It wasn’t pretty! I was a bit concerned that
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1974 SBDU SB9 Assembly – Part One
1974 SBDU frames are incredibly rare, so SB9, which still has original paint and Campagnolo Super Record 1st generation components is getting a full strip and clean. I don’t think it has been cleaned since it was first built. This is the first part of putting SB9 back together. The paint and chrome have been
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SBDU Paint Preservation – SB9 1974 Cleaning the Original Paint
SBDU Paint Preservation is step one of the work I need to do following the earlier stripdown of SB9. I don’t know if SB9 has ever had a clean since it was built in 1974. Every surface, every scratch and every lug line seems to be ingrained with 46 years of dirt and dust.
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1st Generation Campagnolo Super Record – SB9 Stripdown
1st Gen Super Record components on an original paint 1974 SBDU bike! Not just a 1974 SBDU bike, but also a single digit SBDU bike! This bike has to be preserved. It is suffering, it has 46 years of dirt, built up year on year, layer on top of layer. To see the real beauty