Old Copper

A few years back my job had moved me out to Long Beach CA, I did not realize at the time it was going to be the start of a bike building craze  adventure  money-pit Well call it what you want. After I settled down in my own place and got the lay of the land I was comfortable enough to start building bikes on my own. I got tools, and with a little motivation (basically what my brother Ray was building also..) I started shopping around for a bike to get me around town. I settled on this red Pinarello Treviso fixed gear I found on craigslist and went to work building it to my style and comfort.

This is the first bike I bought here in Cali. This is when fixed gear bikes around here was not as big as it is now. I actually felt like the only one riding one of these. All that changed quick when this fad really took off.
Yeah I changed my red bike up, painting it copper and adding a few new parts. Turned a few heads while riding this bike around. But I loved every minute of it.

Years later new bikes came in and out. I built a few track bikes, sold them.. built a mountain bike, sold that.. and so on. But I held on to this Pinarello Treviso and knew that I wanted to rebuilt it into something special I had in mind.
I was on a mission to gather parts from all over the world, I mean really the Campagnolo Shamal wheel-set I got from a guy in Italy. I collected all Campagnolo parts from the era this bike was from. I also have a great liking to all things copper, so going with the theme I had the frame copper plated. In all it turned out to be one hell of a build, imo lol. I hope you enjoy re-introducing my "Old Copper" Pinarello Treviso single speed roadie.
(photo at very top is the finished product )