Pinarello Gavia - age and positive ID help?

rutteger · Jul 22, 2009

Here is the latest addition to the fleet on the road side, what I believe to be an early 90s Pinarello Gavia made from Columbus TSX tubing. If anyone can confirm my ID and give a rough ID on age (guess it oucld be 90-94ish) that'd be great.

Pinarello Gavia

The bike was bought from a chap Italy. It was sold to me as a slightly tired looking Treviso as can be seen in the pics. Took a bit of a punt on it but I think it’s paid off.

As sold with incorrect decals

This is very much an initial build with what I had around in order to put a few miles on the frame before deciding on its ultimate future. As can be seen the paint isn’t in too bad a shape, sadly the decals have peeled from under the lacquer which might be hard to effectively remedy without a spray. Also the fork chrome is quite patchy in places.

Fork and headset detail

Pinarello Treviso

Groupset wise I have committed a sin – newer shimano 7700 series dura ace with STIs on an older Italian frame. That said it all works spot on and I’ve not got the resources to be tracking down a full C-Record/Record gruppo just now.

The remaining components feature hope hubs onto cxp33, grammo stem and eubios bars. Have a nice looking panto’d 1R stem which would look good but is missing parts.

Grammo stem and ergonomic eubios bars

Distinctive Gavia? seatstay cluster

Not had chance to properly ride it yet, will report back when I’ve done a few miles. After which point I'll stick some bar tape on.

jmpier · Jul 24, 2009

Good luck finding out anything on it. I have a Pinarello and I've tried a few things but so far I gotten no where.

Nice bike by the way. I love mine. I have a similar set-up, 7200 Dura Ace, some 600 and a few Campy parts thrown in.

boneman · Jul 25, 2009

Here's some pics of my Gavia

This was in black chrome and TSX tubing. It was a 53 and my correct size is a 52 so I eventually sold it.

rutteger · Jul 30, 2009

boneman said:
This was in black chrome and TSX tubing. It was a 53 and my correct size is a 52 so I eventually sold it.

Very cool. Never seen that smoked chrome on a road bike before, only BMXs. Works well though.

Also gives me a positive ID mine is indeed a gavia, which is nice. Although there was little doubt really.

Do you have a close up of the decal on the top of the down tube?

Any idea how the bottle cage is intended to fit? No raised boss, rather the bottle boss is simply a thread in the frame. Looks like there should be some kind of washer(s) to stop the cage rubbing the paint.

boneman · Jul 30, 2009

Here's the picture

I've seen a few of the black ones, both Gavia and Montello. They also apparently made them in red as I saw one on EBay a few months ago.

Here's the picture. Hope it's what you're looking for.

Depending on your type of cages, you might want to use a washer, particularly if the base of the cage runs flat along the entire length where the mounting holes are located.

rutteger said:
Very cool. Never seen that smoked chrome on a road bike before, only BMXs. Works well though.

Also gives me a positive ID mine is indeed a gavia, which is nice. Although there was little doubt really.

Do you have a close up of the decal on the top of the down tube?

Any idea how the bottle cage is intended to fit? No raised boss, rather the bottle boss is simply a thread in the frame. Looks like there should be some kind of washer(s) to stop the cage rubbing the paint.

rutteger · Aug 5, 2009

Thanks for the pics, great stuff.

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