La Moto Rossa

This is the one part of the project I dreaded the most - painting the frame. After receiving rather outrageous quotes from local shops to sandblast the frame, I then resorted to using the soda blaster myself. When that yielded unsatisfactory results I turned to old-fashioned sanding by hand, accompanied by a palm sander for the top tube and other accessible spots. I also used a Dremel with various bits for some nooks & crannies.

I took apart the forks to clean and polish. These forks have a stamp that indicates date of manufacture on the inside bottom leg. These were made September 1966: After cleaning and polishing, I also repainted the black dust sleeves in bright silver with black trim. After installing back on the frame they will be filled with fresh 20-weight fork oil.

I made a mount for the Veglia Tachometer out of sheet aluminum. It's just a mockup of what I want to make out of thicker gauge at a later point. But for now, this should work.