Continental SLX

The Conti brand is another brand from the same company that made Ciocc after the Bonati brothers bought Giovanni Pellizoli and went into "mass production". It was still not a huge factory, but it was much bigger than when Pellizoli made all the Ciocc himself. Conti is therefore a very unknown Italian manufacturer, but one that produced wonderful and now rare racing bikes. You could almost call it a one-of-a-kind. The beautiful racing bike offers very high-quality features such as internally routed cables on the top tube and chrome stays. A wonderful collector's item.

The Campagnolo Super Record groupset was the ultimate derailleur of its time. All sorts of strange claims were made: the aluminum was some kind of super special alloy, the black anodizing was some kind of super special coating, etc. The truth is a little more banal. The aluminum used is exactly the same alloy that was used on the Nuovo Record. The black anodizing is - wait for it - black anodized. The real technical differences were the use of exotic material for the two large Allen bolts and a larger "flange" on the pulley cage. The derailleur feels good in the hand, has a timeless look and feels valuable simply because it was once so absurdly expensive. It's hard to define what makes a classic, but whatever it is, the Campagnolo Super Record has done the job.