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Originally Posted by look 171
I don't mean to be offensive if I comes across that way.
You are looking for some rare parts hoping to fit into a very rare hub (assuming?) but I am started to hear your frustration. The standards back then were weird. How does a frame mfg to have SAE pedal spindle threads and the rest of the bike is metric? Try French thread. Your problem is solved with a set of newer hubs and believe me, the newer mid level / lower Japanese made hubs are damn good products and lighter too. Oh, but they don't polish as nicely as Campy and that's important to some.
Calculating spoke length will be another challenge even though the measurements are on the net. Getting the correct spoke length will be another azz kicker because of unusual spoke length? The remedy to that issue is to cut and re-thread each and every spoke. Some people like the challenge. I restored a steel Colnago Master Light (yellow one just like George's) for my kid using Dura-ace 9 speed. Its period correct that's only because I have enough carp hanging around from 30 years of doing this siht. We finished it, put bar tape on and he took it out around the canyon once. That's it. Every time we go out, I ask if he would take the old bike. The answer is NO and he's already sitting on his Carbon Trek outside of the garage. Its that much nicer and faster.
Hope you get this dialed in soon and get some riding in.
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I have my sister's race bike from the mid 70s to play with. I was riding it down the street. Its too small for me but its not an unpleasant ride. But I was thinking if I had a new modern bike, still in her size, and rode it I would feel the same as your son. Leave that old stuff hanging on the wall.
That spoke calculator seems to work. I did a reality check with my tape measure on my Cannondale front wheel. The Cannondale has low flange Shimano 105 and they are almost a clone of the Campy hub I have. The Wolber rims on the Cannondale are not as tall as the Mavics I got in the mail today. I calculated 293 for the Mavic/Campy and I measured 302 for the Wolber/Shimano.
very close, but I'll do the measurement again before I place an order and maybe I'll try one of the other calculators and the meathods on Sheldon Brown's page.