Awesome customer's bike update! Cecil Behringer build

     A little while back I had done a post about a Behringer pista frameset we had sold through the shop. Well, now it is a completed bike rolling around our fair city. The owner Josh and I went back and forth with ideas of how to set it up and we are both pleased with the outcome!
      Initially, he said he wanted it set up with a three speed rear hub and upright bars, the ultimate light weight city bike. He also expressed the desire to build it with mostly older high end lightweight components. At first we used modern alloy rims, but encountered a problem with the rear brake reach. Then we needed to find an appropriate front hub. As luck would have it I found a stray complete front wheel consisting of and Air Lite hub laced to a Dunlop Special lightweight 27" steel rim. I then found a matching Dunlop rim for the rear, which solved the brake reach problem and boom! we were getting somewhere. I found the brass face plate Sturmey Archer shifter which is era matched to the rear hub date code. Then I found the GB center pull brakes to give us the required reach with Scott Mathauser pads to ensure powerful stopping power with the lightweight steel rims. Josh sourced the Williams crank set and bottom bracket and the super cool Gipiemme aero type pedals with Oppy style toeclips. I had never seen these pedals until now, and I gotta say if i come across a set at a swap, I am gonna buy them for myself! Josh also provided the handle bars and super cool GB spear point stem. Our head mechanic  Davis did all the build work to his usual high standards, and the result is quite pleasing, I think. We enjoy projects like this, exchanging ideas and coming up with awesome results. It is a bit of an unorthodox build and we are glad to have been a part of it! Enjoy.

Awesome Customer's Bike: Cecil Behringer Pista

     This is a really cool frame and fork we sold a little while back to a loyal customer of the shop. It was built by Cecil Behringer, who was a famous American midwest builder / velodrome designer / ex racer who collaborated with the likes of Pino Morroni. Here is a link to the Classic Rendezvous page about him. Behringer It has unique features like the un-capped seat stays and the elaborate head lugs. The bottom bracket is stamped with the serial number, and his signature cast into the shell itself (see photo). Pretty rare machine from an American master at a time when there were not a lot of people building bikes like this in the USA. We look forward to the finished project!

Pino Morroni Cambio Corsa bicycle

I'm not sure where I got these pictures from, I have had them for years, somewhere on the internet?? It is a bicycle built by Pino Morroni with the use of Campagnolo Cambio Corsa system. But he "improved" the antiquated gear system, by using rear facing dropouts rather than forward facing dropouts used on the original design. Keep in mind, this bicycle was made at least 20 years after Campagnolo stopped production of the Cambio Corsa system. It makes sense, rear facing dropouts when changing gears, but not that practical in quick wheel changes in races.

Still a very nice bicycle. If anyone knows more of the story of this bicycle, please feel free to add.

Also, here is a really nice article about Pino Morroni I ran across on Tam Pham's website.