Lattz

Yeehaw! Last year a female colleague asked for gift tips for cyclist boyfriend. Showed here these... she found them hilarious but said the guy is a bit too old fashioned for such.

Lattz

I saw this/identical frames on some forums. I personally like the brake cable in-and outlets, they and the brake bridge has the gazelle panto on them, although on the outlets its rotated by 90deg so it takes a while to see whats going on. However if i had to beat the clock with this i might curse the designer for the additional unnecessary weight. Luckilly i just have to adore it.

m_sasso

Nice set of uncommon early Corima 4 spoke wheels for sale here at a reasonable price for anyone building a bike, no relation. https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/...omment15111914

Lattz

Thank you for this post, after all being being bike freaks admiring how a bunch various stuff can be put together put together in various different ways to form a transportation device/sport equipment/collector's item/you name it. we are all human being responsible for ourselves and others. I guess for most of us, TT Land and Bike Forums is the safe haven to switch the worlds problems off for a few minutes. Thanks for this great thread and again for this post.

martl

Was in my mailbox just yesterday (got the wheels last week)

Lattz

OOOOhhhh those are lovely congrats!

Lattz

After the Gazelles my curiosity drove me to check if the other Dutch brands mostly known for dutch bikes also made interesting things and found this one-off beauty from the second big name Batavus which got me for first sight. If anyone is interested i think it well woths the 2 clicks to get it translated here. I like the overall look the color is nice and of course that fork mounted handlebar (which looks both removable and adjustable) tops it off but have to say it looks way better as "naked" eye candy than functioning "weapon in action" with all those plastic covers.. but sure they had a purpose. Im mostly a fan of Italian bikes but as we say home "I would gladly get myself ashamed with this"

Lattz

My eyes are naturally skipping the first part of the comment,cant help When I first saw such bikes with this handlebar -maybe still as a kid still with a folding bike - I thought "whoaa how far some people go for being famous" But the more I saw such bikes from Rossin, Colnago, Takhion and others the more I like it. Of course for a wall hanger, not for my commuting needs. Here's another Batavus, I think this must have been their only "commercially available" model, in the black-red-white livery was used by the Dutch National Team, KNWU AMEV if we are right with Google Translator, the white one was on Catawiki, the colorful one is for VintageTTfan <joke ended> and the blue I don't know. Nothing Extremely fancy about it, I personally like those CLB bar-end brake levers and the dropped-top tube with the seatstay section.

Lattz

Why didn't you post the other one as well? They have two of them the other is with bullhorn and the pixel-decals.

They are artists, they always built nice bikes, since from the beginning they made it sure, they only want to build awesome ones, and I guess that is what they do today as well. I'm not much of a modern bike lover, but when I opened their website for the first time a few weeks ago, a blue (what I normally don't like) triathlon bike (what I normally also don't like) caused a temporary meltdown in my brain. What is also a nice thing about them, that they are literally in love with their pantograph. Not only that they have nicely panto'd everything back in the old days when "it was cool". I've seen examples, when people sent them their newer equipment to "help to make it worthy for the artisan frame" and they did it. The bike in your post is a really special one (its just odd that the site has 2 of them, they must have got them from the same collector), I'm anyway a fan of cromovelato, besides its not aging nicely, but this is great shape.

malcala622

A few items came today for the Krono. 60mm black stem and the rear rim.

Im still playing with the handlebar position but I'm excited about how the build is going so far.

Lattz

Yesterday finally I brought home mine (Somec Special - normal road bike from their early days) from the office garage at lunchtime, and just 5 minutes later, the BB broke in the daily beater Alan. So this morning I quickly threw over the handlebar, saddle and wheels to make the maiden flight to work. Didn't expect much, but I was amazed how nice it is.

Lattz

Sure, although shame on me, after having it 7 days nothing changed since the unpacking. First is the unpacked state, as it arrived home (it also has a matching yellow Turbo). Unfortunately nothing really fancy and in a bad state. The second is from this morning after scavenging the Alan for the parts, just after the maiden flight to the office in a somewhat cleaner state. And one for the Tulip... a lot to do, like cable guides, repaint, decals, and in the long run a Camagnolo groupset.
Full Shimano 600 (not the collectors most precious artifact, but after 40~ years it works, like if it was its first day), the Wolber wheels are nice, and like new, stem, seatpost and handlebar are ITM.
In one of our films there's a scene which fits here: "man bites in lemon. Whats THIS? -This? It's our new orange! -Orange? This? - Well, its a bit more yellow, a bit sour, but its ours!"

P!N20

No expert, but while the frame is magic, I can’t endorse the mid 90’s 9 speed groupset with mid 80’s Cobalto brakes and early 80’s shifters and headset. Sorry.

P!N20

Man, I wish I could find a Somec in this sort of condition.

malcala622

I doubt the TT with Campy discs gets ridden...no pedals

P!N20

Given the aero mount shifters, I was going to say early 80’s, but if those cobalto brakes are original, it’s more likely late 80’s. So in the case of the former I’d go a Nuovo Record groupset, or C-Record for the latter. (I’d probably put C-Rec on anything! )

T-Mar

Based on the style of the Columbus and MAVIC decals, it's no older than a 1988 model manufactured in late 1987.

P!N20

Don’t worry, I never go too far.

I don’t know much about that particular Clamont, but I do know Geoff built many frames for Olympic competition.

malcala622

Or maybe she wants to keep dirt off the tires as much as possible. I do the same when carrrying my bike from garage to house after wiping down the tires lol.


Here's a mock up for you of my TT with the H+Son rims. Im in love with them.



Both rims look like 700c dont they.

P!N20

Wow. Spoke-less wheels!

T-Mar

I wondering if the Clamont might be one of the New Zealand team's 100 Km TTT bicycles for the 1988 Seoul Olympics? The frame style does resemble that of the 1 Km ITT track frame used by New Zealand's Tony Graham' during those Games.

Lattz

OH
MY
GOODNESS....
That is really a well curated selection of this fine bike! Many thanks for it!!!! I got hybernated for a day or so and bammm what happened?? Feel tempted to try my ongoing luck series with these ones but I truly afraid that i'd actually find some affordable hidden gem (like with the Rossin the Alan and the Somec) and would wake up walking down to the office post asking if theres a package for me.
The guy in the "Indurain" helmet is awesome maybe he tries to draw thieves' attention away from the bike.
That radical handlebar and all these nice colors.... wow. And what I always find super is these fluidisk wheels on Soviet team machines. The state furniture factory might have made not really artistic furnitures for the masses but quite a few of them reborn as pure art in the form of a disc wheel and exactly those furnier patterns which make these wheels interesting were dark and boring if not depressing in their original context - love it.

m_sasso

I am not a big Nago fan however I do appreciate this bike and its paint scheme.



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Lattz

This bike looks so cool (not only because I'm a Celeste fanboy as mine was the same variant of the color), congrats and keep up the good work! By default, I'm a road bike guy, who adores TT bikes for their radical shapes, and pista bikes for clean look caused by the considerable less parts. When I'm looking at pics of bikes which both have a corsa and a pista version, I always have a "the grass is always greener on the other side" taste in my mouth mixed with the everyday commuting experience how cool is it to have proper brakes and derailleurs.
So if you could go on and drop a mail to Franco Sbarro how to make your bike hubless I'd have a new category to admire.

T-Mar

Here's one that I don't believe has been posted in this thread. It's Jocelyn Lovell at the 1982 World Championships on his unique 1 kilometre bicycle. Besides designing and constructing the frame himself, it has an ingenious, automatic shifing, two speed drivetrain of Jocelyn's own design, that did not violate the UCI rules prohibiting derailleurs on track bicycles. If you look closely, you'll see that the bicycle has both left and right hand drivetrains!

The right hand drive is the lower ratio "start" gear and it used a single speed freewheel. The left hand drive is the higher ratio and uses a fixed gear style cog that is not locked in place. This cog is mounted on an extended threaded section, similar to a freewheel hub. At the start, the cog starts to unthread itself, causing the drive to take place though the freewheel. When the cog hits a stop it takes over the drive, causing the "start gear" to freewheel.

In addition to providing a suitable difference, the two ratios had to provide similar chain tension. Jocelyn settled on 42T x 13T and 53T x 15T, which allowed him a low gear for about the first 70m. Lovell had won silver in the event in 1978, missing out on becoming World Champion by a fraction of a second and had hoped his invention would give him an advantage in acceleration to make up the difference. While, the dual drivetrain functioned as intended, Lovell was not in peak form and finished out of the medals.

Of course, the real significance of this bicycle is that it can't be photographed from the non-drive side.