Help For The New Bloke Would be Appreciated

[crill 70]

Good morning gents, I didn't know where to post this so Miscellaneous looked the goods. I'm in the process of building up a 1986 KYPO steel frame built by a local frame builder here in Australia. I'm only interested in doing this with Campag' components. I plan on still riding the bike so I want to use ergo era parts or ergo era compatible parts. Are C Record dearilleuers compatible with ergo shifters or should I be looking at Record or Chorus from the mid 90's? I was thinking 8 speed, or should I go 9, or even 10? I want the bike to look as original as possible so I want to keep away from Carbon Parts. I'm a clean slate and don't have any bias toward one groupset over another. As long as it works and looks good I'm happy. I realy don't know where to start so any advice at all would be appreciated.
At the moment all I've done is buy a Record head set and I'm currently looking for a bottom bracket. Speaking of which, what length bottom bracket will I need? Does the length vary depending on which cranks you use? I will have 2 chainrings, probably 39/53 or 42/53?
Thanks.

[jazclrint]

I personally don't know much about the older stuff, however I put an Athena groupset on my first road bike. If you are going classic then there is no reason to not go 8 speed really. The only hard part about the older stuff is there are little to no spare parts for them any more. But, I built my bike up in '97 and the groupset is still going on my ex-girlfriends bike. So I'd just go for what you can get that's in good shape.

As far as BB width goes, 115mm is for triples I believe. There were 2 other sizes for the 10spd stuff as the Chorus and Record different somehow (maybe it was for the carbon cranks?). I don't know if that started with the 8 speed and older 9 speed or not. I'm sure someone will post, but you have to give it a while as reply's are slow to come.

Richard

[bikerjulio]

C Record from the early '90's would be a good choice. Not so much the earlier stuff. Depending on frame spacing you can run either a 7-speed Regina freewheel or a later 8-speed freehub & cassette. 8 speed shifters work fine on either as the cog spacing is the same. You have a choice of ergo or downtube syncro 2 shifters. I have the latter & they work great with a 7 speed freehub. Make sure you get a '91 or later rear derrailleur. C Record cranksets use a 111mm BB, so a modern Centaur square taper BB works. Again the last gen Delta brakes (5 pivot, black rubbers) work fine or you can go Athena.

This is my '85 Merckx with early '90's C Record stuff. Those Record hubs are a work of art.