I have a dream.......

Who shot the sheriff!

Dont know a great deal about these beauty's, dont really need to!

They are, in my opinion, the hottest hubs ever made, period!

Track or Road the are the smartest and meanest looking hubs around! Some might say they are not that great due to their weight or the fact they seemed to crack from time to time but come on when it comes to retro porn its hard to top these bad boys!



I have a rear track verison in my collection and I'm also trying very desperately to talk a friend into selling me a set of track wheels she uses for training that has a set of these hubs in them.



The road verison of the "Sheriff's" are even harder to find, esp as a set like the ones pictured (not from my collection sad to say). But I do have a front road Sheriff and thanks to this here little blog of BS I have made contact with one very very generous fellow in the UK who is selling me a rear Sheriff to complete the set :) .....so now I can build up a set of wheels with Campagnolo C-Record Sheriff Star Road Hubs to complete my Colnago Master with full C-Record group set including the belovered DELTA's.....aaaaahhhhhh lovely!!

Rossin Ghibli SLX 1988

Rossin Ghibli with Cmpagnolo Croce d Aune.

this bike is now winging its way to the US to a new owner, after picking this bike up on trademe with a mixture of Campagnolo CdA and SR components I spent some time (and $$$) on kitting her out with a CdA grouppo (minus the headset). Delta's came from the south of France, Cranks from the US, rear mech from dirty ol Inver's (Invercargill,NZ), Rolls saddle from Denton Park,Christchurch (what a find that was!) Just found out from the perivous owner the frame was purchased in DENMARK in 1988 when on his Euro holiday, this is one well travelled bike and now heading to the US.

This is a sweet bike to ride, smooth and comfy, weighs a ton but find me a 80's steel bike that doesn't!

As you can see this bike would go well with any 80's fluoro cycling outfit, bright green, yellow and a dash of pink (italian styling must have had the day off when they did this colour scheme).

I didnt bother with touching up the frame, adds character and all that, turns out this bike was raced in the 1988 Tour of Southland by the original owner. After riding this bike up a very small hill i feel very sorry for the guy, having done Southland a few times myself i know those climbs and how hard they are even on a bike that weighs in at 7kg let alone one that weighs in more than twice that!!!

I do feel a little sad to see the Croce d Aune walk out the door though, the rear mech really is a work of engnieering art!!! the bridge arm that is only found CdA is pretty cool as are the Deltas.

Still better to spread the love for steel the world over, plus letting this bike go has allowed me to take on other projects and complete some long over due ones ( the Merckx above included).

thanks for watching :)