Show us your steel.....its real...

[ColinJ]

An old anvil at the The Force in Emberton and my Deda Cougar

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Nice, but... "May the Forge be with you"!

 

[iandg]

Rebuild of my Henry Burton (renovated 1970s Raleigh Professional) finished, all ready for Velo Retro Festival, early June.

 

[AlanW]

A bit late to the thread, but here is my Rourke frame after its last refurb and beautifully wrapped by ww.cyclewrap.co.uk

 

[Specialeyes]

In between getting measured up by Giovanni himself for this bad boy (October 2022) and it being ready for collection (April 2023), I managed to get myself diagnosed with Stage 3 Bowel Cancer and underwent successful surgery with a tumour the size of a large can of Guinness removed from my gut.

I made a Ryanair day trip to the workshop in Marostica near Venice to collect the bike in the short window between surgery and starting chemo, rode it about 4 times last April before the chemo *really* kicked in, and have been pining to get back on this bike ever since. It's been my back-to-fitness motivation and I bloody love it. I know it's far too much bike for me but if anything were to demonstrate that life's too short to worry about that kind of thing, it's the story behind this bike.

I present my Officina Battaglin Portofino, no. 5/99: lugged steel and oversized tubes to celebrate my previously-oversized tubes!

 

[Spiderweb]

In between getting measured up by Giovanni himself for this bad boy (October 2022) and it being ready for collection (April 2023), I managed to get myself diagnosed with Stage 3 Bowel Cancer and underwent successful surgery with a tumour the size of a large can of Guinness removed from my gut.

I made a Ryanair day trip to the workshop in Marostica near Venice to collect the bike in the short window between surgery and starting chemo, rode it about 4 times last April before the chemo *really* kicked in, and have been pining to get back on this bike ever since. It's been my back-to-fitness motivation and I bloody love it. I know it's far too much bike for me but if anything were to demonstrate that life's to short to worry about that kind of thing, it's the story behind this bike.

I present my Officina Battaglin Portofino, no. 5/99: lugged steel and oversized tubes to celebrate my previously-oversized tubes!

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Simply stunning❤️

 

[AndyRM]

In between getting measured up by Giovanni himself for this bad boy (October 2022) and it being ready for collection (April 2023), I managed to get myself diagnosed with Stage 3 Bowel Cancer and underwent successful surgery with a tumour the size of a large can of Guinness removed from my gut.

I made a Ryanair day trip to the workshop in Marostica near Venice to collect the bike in the short window between surgery and starting chemo, rode it about 4 times last April before the chemo *really* kicked in, and have been pining to get back on this bike ever since. It's been my back-to-fitness motivation and I bloody love it. I know it's far too much bike for me but if anything were to demonstrate that life's too short to worry about that kind of thing, it's the story behind this bike.

I present my Officina Battaglin Portofino, no. 5/99: lugged steel and oversized tubes to celebrate my previously-oversized tubes!

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Wow. That is a thing of absolute beauty.

 

[Venod]

I present my Officina Battaglin Portofino, no. 5/99: lugged steel and oversized tubes to celebrate my previously-oversized tubes!

That's stunning, I have often pondered buying a frame from Chesini in Verona, but the complications have put me off.
So I have some questions.
Did you have to pay import duty ?
Did you take your own bike box ?

https://www.chesini.it/eng/bikes/steel

 

[Specialeyes]

That's stunning, I have often pondered buying a frame from Chesini in Verona, but the complications have put me off.
So I have some questions.
Did you have to pay import duty ?
Did you take your own bike box ?

https://www.chesini.it/eng/bikes/steel

Thanks

When I collected the bike I took OB's recommendation and bought an Elite Borson from them for the return flight.

If I hadn't sold my previous B&W box a couple of years previousy I would have taken that out with me empty apart from some sweaty kit, helmet, pedals etc (which went in hand baggage instead), as it's cheaper to fly an empty box than to buy a new one.

 

[T4tomo]

In between getting measured up by Giovanni himself for this bad boy (October 2022) and it being ready for collection (April 2023), I managed to get myself diagnosed with Stage 3 Bowel Cancer and underwent successful surgery with a tumour the size of a large can of Guinness removed from my gut.

I made a Ryanair day trip to the workshop in Marostica near Venice to collect the bike in the short window between surgery and starting chemo, rode it about 4 times last April before the chemo *really* kicked in, and have been pining to get back on this bike ever since. It's been my back-to-fitness motivation and I bloody love it. I know it's far too much bike for me but if anything were to demonstrate that life's too short to worry about that kind of thing, it's the story behind this bike.

I present my Officina Battaglin Portofino, no. 5/99: lugged steel and oversized tubes to celebrate my previously-oversized tubes!

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That is absofarkinglutely gorgeous. I recall a thread on you ordering this a goodly while back making me very jealous.

Enjoy it and I hope all is good on the cancer recovery front.