NOS Casati Monza build

For the past two previous weeks, I’ve been trying to sell a NOS Casati Monza.  I am unsure of the year of the frame, but my guess would probably be late 80’s/ early 90’s due to the color and frame graphics.  I would guess that it was originally meant to be built up with 8 speed C-Record groupset.  I am glad to say that I got an email today from a girl named Carmen who sent her friend out to look at the frame today.  I turned out to know this friend, Dustin (of course, like many Craigslist interactions) and we settled on a good price.

Since this will be Carmen’s real first ‘nice’ bike (her previous bike being a double DT Peugeot mixte), it would have pretty decent parts.  I am to help Dustin and Carmen to decide how to build this bike nicely.

Here is the said frame.

To match the era-properness and the femininity of the frame, I was thinking of going with mainly a black/pink theme as to match the outlines of the decal lettering.

Parts are as follows:
Headset: Tange 1″ threaded or Campagnolo Nuovo Record (as to keep the polished lug/polished fork crown transition).
Wheelset: Record hubs with and cassette hub body to accommodate an 8 speed Campagnolo Cassette. Rims will be either Vento or Shamal depending on what we can find.
Crankset: C-Record (w/ the 5th ‘hidden’ arm) maybe with a compact inner ring
Stem: Cinelli 1R black 85mm
Handlebars: Cinelli Mod 64 40/38cm(wide top section, narrow drop)
Shifters: 8 speed ergo levers
Seatpost: C-record or Athena aero seatpost. 27.2
Front Der: C-record 28.6 double
Rear Der: 8 speed C-record
Bottom Bracket: Campagnolo/Italian threading/spindle=70-SPc

Pedaler’s bike swap is this weekend in El Sobrante, should be a good place to look for some C-record vintage parts.

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