Jim Miele Gara Road Issue

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.