Recent personal project completed: Early 1980's RIGI stainless steel build

     This is another one of my personal bikes finally built up! It is an early 1980's RIGI, which is an Italian marque. Here is a link to the Classic Rendezvous page about it: RIGI I bought it as a frame and fork from a fellow CR list member back in March 2015. It has been hanging in my basement ever since. It took me a while to get all the parts for it. Also, I am the proud father of two young children, so I have very little free time. I have been slowly assembling it over the past couple of weeks and now it is complete! Minus bar tape, I am still figuring out stem length. I took it for a ride yesterday and it is one squirrely bike! It is very quick handling and twitchy at speed. The very steep geometry also took a bit of getting used to. I look forward to a lot of hill climbing on it as that is where this design excels.
     There were two options with these bikes. One was a traditional lugged frame construction. The other was a stainless steel, welded model, which is what this bike is. Kind of exotic for the early 80's. The build is as follows:

• Campagnolo high flange hubs laced to gold anodized Mavic Record Du Monde De L'Heure rims.
• Campagnolo Super Record rear derailleur
• Campagnolo Super Record brake calipers with O.M.A.S. Titanium center bolts and alloy hardware.
• Campagnolo alloy brake pad holders.
• Campagnolo Super Record brake levers
• Campagnolo Record bottom bracket.
• Campagnolo Super Record cranks with Arnold Industries gold anoidized alloy crank bolts.
• Campagnolo Super Leggeri pedals with Alfredo Binda toe straps (need to get alloy Campy toe clips still)
• Campagnolo Super Record single bolt seat post.
• NOS Soffatti drilled saddle.
• Gian Robert propriatary front derailleur (got lucky and scored it off Ebay real cheap over the summer)
• Campagnolo Super Record head set.
• O.M.AS. front alloy skewer (still need to find a matching rear)
• Cinelli 1R stem
• Cinelli Criterium bars
• Regina Oro freewheel and Regina Oro drilled plate chain.
• Clarks cables and housing with blue plastic coating ( nerded out on the color matching to the decals!)

Enjoy the photos. Thanks to Steven Willis at the bike Stand in Scotch Plains, NJ for selling me the frame and fork and Mark Petry for hooking me up with an original RIGI cycling cap to round out the project!

For Sale- late 1970s Benotto 58cm road bike SOLD!

 Nice Italian made Benotto. I am not sure what model it is. Galli headset, shifters, pedals, and crankset. Campagnolo Nuovo record front and rear derailleurs and hubs set. pantographed 3T seatpost., pantographed Cinelli stem, Cinelli handlebars. Soffatti saddle. Mix matched tubular rims- rear is a Mavic GP4 and the front rim is an Ambrosio.
Chainstays are shaped tubing- diamond, rather than round. Heart cutout of the bottom bracket shell underneath.Campagnolo dropouts with provision to accept Campagnolo Portacatena on the drive side- so that dates the frame late 1970s, early 1980s.
Bicycle is used and has usual chips in the original paint. There is also some rust on parts of the frame, but none of that is structural. No dents or signs of a crash. Bicycle could use an overall- cleaning old grease and adding new grease, and various adjustments associated. It does take tubular(glue on) tires and they must be replaced and properly glued. All of this is not included in the price. Bicycle is as is.
58cm center to center seattube
57cm center to center toptube.
$700
SOLD!