Picture of Your Favorite Vintage Time Trial Bicycles and Why!
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Todays candy is a Serotta pursuit bike (shoot without warning if it was posted earlier...right in the head)
Honestly, I have never heard of them before seeing this bike (I know, I know, these Europeans don't know sh*** about bikes )
so I was ready to see a lot of similar level bikes, but so far I have not find anything close to this. But this makes up for everything else they have made.
Simple, elegant, wild, and red (I will never get rid of the prejudice, that I only like red bikes)
Honestly, I have never heard of them before seeing this bike (I know, I know, these Europeans don't know sh*** about bikes )
so I was ready to see a lot of similar level bikes, but so far I have not find anything close to this. But this makes up for everything else they have made.
Simple, elegant, wild, and red (I will never get rid of the prejudice, that I only like red bikes)
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That is an iconic picture, and they nicely compliment each other with the modern one posted by Ben. Interesting to see that even 35 years ago, space (in this case automotive) technology was available for the top teams and their riders. Of course UCI pretended to try to equalize the benefit earned solely by having more money with its bans, but such experiments brought the bikes forward to their current state, where even a mid-class, mass-manufactured thing is available to normal human beings today.
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These early track machines, pistas, etc. do fall in the category of this thread actually. If you scroll back you will see some other ones posted....so post away. Even some of the 1930's track bikes would fit in....and sometimes I include early velodrome posters just to vary it up. By the way, Eighties to mid-Nineties Concept bikes also fit in....a lot of them tend to be pursuit, crono, track, whatever you want to call it. Even the steel Japanese track bikes from recent times sneak in because they fit the look. I would recommend avoiding modern carbon though....but not vintage carbon. The guidelines were spelled out in the first thread but they are not written in stone. A little variance or a few exceptions keeps us all out of straight jackets..ha ha........
Now as to this gold plated bike....this one is nice. Sometimes it looks overdone and tacky, but not in this case. The objection I have to gold is also that sometimes it flakes off and looks terrible. Not all the time .....depends on quality of plating job. Anyway nice bike.
And I always try to include a new picture to keeps the troops entertained:
Like the red center fade disc wheels...something different. Nice bike too.
And here is the twin road bike. It is nice to include the twin when you can...so there yah go....another exception! They prove the rule....don't yah know......
Now as to this gold plated bike....this one is nice. Sometimes it looks overdone and tacky, but not in this case. The objection I have to gold is also that sometimes it flakes off and looks terrible. Not all the time .....depends on quality of plating job. Anyway nice bike.
And I always try to include a new picture to keeps the troops entertained:
Like the red center fade disc wheels...something different. Nice bike too.
And here is the twin road bike. It is nice to include the twin when you can...so there yah go....another exception! They prove the rule....don't yah know......
Everybody manufacturer can buy quality parts, many of them could draw a good looking bike. But why I dislike mass produced bikes is the welding, sadly also on some big name models. I understand, that ugly weld scars are the price the thin-pocket guys have to pay in order to be able to pay for the name, but still. Thousand times an old affordable quality bike, than a modern spaceship with ugly welding. But its just me being me, plus I didn't want to go by without praising the Stelbels - they deserve it. It is interesting that the brand was resurrected by the Cicli Corsa Classico guys in close collaboration with Stelio Belletti himself. It sounds a better happy end, compared to mammoth companies are buying formed big names for their far-east productions.
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Old soldier back on the road
Very 1980s paint job on my old funny bike. It had lain in the shed covered in crap and crud. Cleaned it, rust converter, clear coat, bit of touch up enamel and waxed.
The 75mm front forks make these funny bikes very narrow.
AX Shimano just reached the 520 mm rim.
Aero post looks the biz
Amazingly tiny front fork. The tire is 20mm wheelchair tire.
Put a Sugino 144 BCD crank set and ring on the front. Been lying around for decades. Goodness new Sugino has gotten ridiculously expensive.
Done tens of thousands of miles on this bike flat out. Still the most comfortable bike I have every ridden at speed . Now need to lose a lotta weight to do the old campaigner justice.
This is the Dura ace mech that allows you to remove the mech without opening the chain. If u look and the bottom jockey wheel (that is metallic) you might discern a small catch and plunger that opens the cage. Like the AX it didn't catch on for many good reasons.
AX first generation.
In traffic on the open road you need a brake on the aero bars
The 75mm front forks make these funny bikes very narrow.
AX Shimano just reached the 520 mm rim.
Aero post looks the biz
Amazingly tiny front fork. The tire is 20mm wheelchair tire.
Put a Sugino 144 BCD crank set and ring on the front. Been lying around for decades. Goodness new Sugino has gotten ridiculously expensive.
Done tens of thousands of miles on this bike flat out. Still the most comfortable bike I have every ridden at speed . Now need to lose a lotta weight to do the old campaigner justice.
This is the Dura ace mech that allows you to remove the mech without opening the chain. If u look and the bottom jockey wheel (that is metallic) you might discern a small catch and plunger that opens the cage. Like the AX it didn't catch on for many good reasons.
AX first generation.
In traffic on the open road you need a brake on the aero bars
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Neither one is vintage, but both are very cool.
Both made my Don Walker. I asked him why he made a reproduction eastern block TT bike. He replied "Because it is. SO. F-ING. COOL."
Neither one is vintage, but both are very cool.
Both made my Don Walker. I asked him why he made a reproduction eastern block TT bike. He replied "Because it is. SO. F-ING. COOL."
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I thought I would post this CL listing here.....https://losangeles.craigslist.org/la...141673698.html
A nice collection of Pursuit and TT for your viewing pleasure.
Ben
A nice collection of Pursuit and TT for your viewing pleasure.
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This bike IS the magic unicorn for me. It has a really sad story. Andrea Cinelli (son of Cinelli founder Cino) set up a company to build the ultimate bike in carbon, which was still revolutionary at the time. The result was revolutionary, and the bike was good, but the molds they used for creating the frame had to be replaced more often than they thought, so the whole thing ended up as a big disaster. Both the stem length and the handlebar width were adjustable.
It holds the #1 entry on my list of "bikes I will never forgive myself for not getting them when the opportunity was there".
Here's another pic of it taken at Cicli Berlinetta, this time with the girl, who has had her 15 minutes of fame on these pages already...
... and a track tandem, because why not... and for those, who find the ~50 finished frames of the road version too mainstream.
It holds the #1 entry on my list of "bikes I will never forgive myself for not getting them when the opportunity was there".
Here's another pic of it taken at Cicli Berlinetta, this time with the girl, who has had her 15 minutes of fame on these pages already...
... and a track tandem, because why not... and for those, who find the ~50 finished frames of the road version too mainstream.
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Here is the full bike from the post I did recently. Just stumbled on it so nice serendipity. Love the green apple color with the red. This is a make of bicycle that is hardly ever seen I believe. Anyone that can track a history or prove otherwise...I would be impressed. Nice handlebar setup and disc wheels, although I hate extra stickers. And there is that fantastic crankset with the fantastic chain ring that I still don't have. And to make things worse ...counterfeits of this Stronglight have been showing up on Ebay. Shame for real on them.
The guy also posted a modern unlabelled Alan, which was later also labelled as Migliorelli.
I would say, whatever Migliorelli means, the bike is nice, but I think,it reminds me to the Fanciulli labelled Olmo siblings:
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The "normal" lugged carbon Advance looks like a joke compared to this, while staying on the ground with both feet, this one, besides being cool, looks like if Rossin had realeased the Cinelli Laser Mia way before Cinelli did.
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I thought I would post this CL listing here.....https://losangeles.craigslist.org/la...141673698.html
A nice collection of Pursuit and TT for your viewing pleasure.
Ben
A nice collection of Pursuit and TT for your viewing pleasure.
Ben
While that's the highlight of the bunch for me, still my heart beats for the Bianchi, especially it's 58... made for me.
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A nice looking Vetta frame for sale in Italy. Besides the colorful paintjob, the heart-shaped braze-ons where the shift cables exit the DT are cute little details.
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...and if its "for sale" day, here's one from Russia (with love, for sure) for those who dig Soviet-tech.
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Looks like a fox during hunting.... just waiting casually around the corner....
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As the openly red Italian bike fool aroind these pages, heres another one to rest your eyes on.... hard not to like it. But even rhe red italian bike haters might find pieces here and there worth looing at.
Photo credits Veloversum
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For those who have stared anough at the red Tommasini to see the world in pink, heres a non-red non-Italian wow thing as well to cure the temp. eye damage:
~1980 track pursuit bike built by Swiss builder Leo Estermann for Australian champion Kenrick Tucker.
Full story and a few more images: Velo Aficionado
~1980 track pursuit bike built by Swiss builder Leo Estermann for Australian champion Kenrick Tucker.
Full story and a few more images: Velo Aficionado
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After 1441 posts don't know if this has been posted here before - taken from a thread by BF member CyclesMakaron:
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Paging xiaoman1 I've logged in to comment you on the Turbo bio, but before I did I saw this first. It's red-white bio day (with Deltas)!
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This bike was mentioned a long while ago, but I don't remember seeing pictures of it. Assos's (claimed to be) first ever carbon fiber bicycle.
cource: GCN, roadbikereview, BikeRadar
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This popped up on the Bay Area CL:
can anyone ID this beauty?
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/bik...154071107.html
can anyone ID this beauty?
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/bik...154071107.html
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