Jim Miele Gara Road Issue






Jim Miele Gara Road Issue/62cm/1991
Specialized compact drop bars / RaceFace Cadence on a 1" threaded to threadless adaptor
Columbus Cromo/Tange doublenut
Neuvation M28x/Serfas SECA
Mavic CXP22/105 hub/Serfas SECA
Shimano 105 squaretaper 170mm crankarms w/ NOS 53-39 105 rings / Shimano BB w/ modified italian thread lockring spacer for driveside chainline
Traitor Diamondstitch/Promax
cheap SPDs/SRAM 9 spd
Ultegra 9spd bar-end/Shimano 600 FD/Shimano 105 RD
Tektro R536 med reach up front/ 105 short reach behind / Crappy Tektro aero levers
53/39 NOS 105 rings on vintage 105 squaretaper 170mm crankarms/new SRAM 9spd 11-28 cluster
120 psi
Canadian Colnago...this frame TOTALLY rules. Incredibly light, tight, nimble and stiff.
This frame was found in an alley with an older Nitto quill rust fused into the headtube. Hours of hacking, hammering, pounding did absolutely nothing to free it. Only an overnight soak in a certain solvent did the trick and it slid right out.
I wanted to build an affordable century-rider and as I live and ride in and around Seattle and the North Cascades, there would be LOTS of climbing so I needed a sturdier cockpit than a quill could provide. Leaving the 26Ø world behind, I put in a 1"threaded to threadless adapter and upgraded to 31.8Ø bars.
This week I put on new wheels, a Neuvation M28x up front, and a much more solid CXP22 on a new 105 hub in the rear. Switched all the old downtube 6 speed stuff over to a new 9 speed cluster w/ bar end shifting as I have a perfect fit in the brake hoods as is and didn't want to take this bike into integrated brifter land.
One thing became clear, the BB shells on these Miele frames are ITALIAN THREAD, so my new splined Octalink BB and Hollowtech 105 crankarms were NOT going to work out, so I popped the new rings on the original crankarms and VOILA...my chainline was too close to the frame causing significant rub against the backside of the large ring while running on the small. As it was difficult to track down an italian thread spacer, one was fabricated from an IT lockring w/ the threads ground out.