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In todays episode we restore this vintage Olmo running campagnolo. We fit new wheel bearings, new hub bearings, new headset bearings, all new cables and much more…
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49 Comments
Beautiful job and sympathetic to the bike.
Lovely bike, great service !
As always,it was brilliant ❤
Epic restoration and what an amazing job. Would love to find out how you approach pricing out a restaurarion job like this? The customer must have loved the end product. Great job Lee and quality editing Simon 🎉
Lovely restoration! Campag. derailleur cable adjusters are prone to breaking; I've had three break over the years but (luckily) managed to tease the broken threads out with a screwdriver. It's best I think to retain as much thread as possible inside the mech.
Another amazing job lads! How smooth was that BB?!
Great built! 🎉
But why didn't you see the damaged bottlecage?
Beautiful restoration! Will owner be likely to do some minor paint touch ups in chipped areas? Would imagine that will help preserve the steel tubing and enhance it a wee bit more.
Wow what an amazing transformation lovely job as always dude.. always look forward to watching your latest vids. 😊 Pete 🚴🏻👍
Super job as usual!! Lovely bike.
I've got exactly that frame just different groupset. Maybe i should have mine done too😅
Thanks for taking the time to edit this episode Bikespeeds, always a great watch
Lovely, sympathetic overhaul. Meticulous and thoughtful workmanship as usual. Love this channel. Well done, gents.
¡Great job! ❤
My absolute favorite customer restoration thus far. Way to go to both you and Simon! What an incredible feature. The customer should be immensely proud to have yall work on their equipment and to own such an astonishing ride!
I did enjoy watching this video, so satisfying! THANK YOU
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Glorious. I wish I could like this more than once. Like a lot of professionals, you make the difficult seem straightforward. That bearing work was something else. Well done gents 👊
Lovely restoration beautiful bicycle. Great video as always 👍
Lovely bike. Love it when you do the older ones. Keep up the great work. A weekly treat!
I can absolutely relate to loving polishing those bare aluminium parts, before everything went anodised and painted. Polishing the big meaty alloy bits on my old early ‘90s Deore XT groupset used to be the icing on the cake after a post-ride cleanup.
Question : Was there any wear in the wheel, or other, cones and if so what did you do? I have found that with worn wheel cones you can't adjust out play. Finding replacements is 'mission impossible'. You can try and buy ones made by 'Wheels Manufacturing' but they are expensive. I just fit generic cones and this is what I think happens elsewhere ('Nice bike service' on Youtube). Never used to be like this of course getting parts.
Every cyclist should own a classic steel bike like this!
Beautiful job 😍
My dads bike…. its a early 80's. Portuguese Orbita. Not a very well known brand outside of my home country. I am mentioning this because this year as a christmas gift to myself, i am going to show one of your videos to my local bike mechanic. I am hoping he kan do something like this for me… my dad has been gone since 2017. And before that we never had the change of riding together all that mutch, something i am doing my best to correct with my son. The objective is that we get to go on a ride for new year me and him. Him on my Sintesy that i have since the early 00's and me on my dads. From Fatima till Nazaré to see the surfers. Will be a good one…
Great job! These Campagnolo bottom brackets, apart from having dual metric and imperial unit sizes, have the tendancy to unscrew themselves if they are not tightened correctly. One solution people used was to put some glue on the threads..
Your work is top notch! Ty for sharing!
Brilliant restoration, Lee and Simon! I'm sure the owner of this bike was really happy with your work. As for the oldest bike in my modest collection, I have a Vitus 979 aluminum bike from the 80's as racing by one of my favorite riders, Sean Kelly. But as fate would have it where his bike was gold mine is red because that's what they had in my size. I would have loved to have the Mavic groupset he raced on but availability and price ruled that out so I was able to get my hands on a Shimano Dura Ace groupset from the 80's. I know people say "Oh, Vitus aluminum frames are flexy" and the professional riders changed their bikes out every race season, but the bike is lite and a pleasure to ride. At 65, I don't race for a living, I just like my nice bicycles and enjoying the ride. Cheers my friends!
Might even be better than new.😊
I had an Olmo 1989 anniversary model, fully pantographed. I swapped it for an aluminium Canyon. What an idiot. Anyway, another lovely restoration.
Absolute class act here guys. Thank you!
Stunning work, as always Gentlemen
wonder how much that service costs?
Tremendous service bringing this old bike back to almost showroom level 🇫🇮😎
Wow, your best old school classic yet 👏🏻
It always kind of amuses me when I see these videos and the "before" condition is usually far nicer than any of the bikes I've ever owned.
I'm glad to see someone takes care of their bikes better than I do!
Epic restoration!!!
Be great to capture the customers reaction. They would have been blown away.
Thanks Lee for another great video! I absolutely love your videos on restoring old/vintage bikes. I've started work on my first restoration project but have hit a few snags. I'm hoping you could give some pointers for when encountering issues like bounded parts, corrosion externally/internally, painting or whatever else comes to mind. Thanks again!
I don't know why I find these videos so interesting. It must be seeing someone do something I wish I could do but can't. I have a 1975 Bianchi I'd love to restore. Maybe when I retire. Keep up the good work.
hello, i have been admiaring your videos, i have on old bike thats in a alright state i dont know if your able to but would you get it looking new but with the origonal paint so froth, i think its from the 50s-60s and i saw the video you made of restoring your 60s one and thought maby you service it if you did public restorations
Great bike, beautiful story, and an awesome service. Well done Lee. Lots of great comments too.
Probably asked before but which bearing press do you use?
Does he rinse the bike parts after soaping them up like that? Or just wipe them off with a damp cloth?
I love the 86-94 era of steel race'ish bikes. What I don't like is the max 23mm rear tire on my el/os. Oh, and 53-39's on my 50+ body.
Where is the magnet you used on pedal bearings from? Thanks
Beautiful. Wonderful to watch.
What did you torque all the bolts to at the end ?
Just a couple of "errors" there: tape should be white and tires with brown laterals. Forgot to check the saddle tube? Apart from that, amazing job!