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Picture of Your Favorite Vintage Time Trial Bicycles and Why!

Old 09-12-19, 06:29 PM
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This Somec has been featured on The Pedal Room for some time , I think it's cool .

https://www.pedalroom.com/bike/for-s...-pursuit-19696

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Some TT trivia , what is the little lever for ?

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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan
Not sure........lets see if anyone else knows.
I remember this very well! The switch went from indexed to friction shifting. It was Campy’s Response to early ‘SIS’ shimano indexed shifting
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Originally Posted by markwesti
This Somec has been featured on The Pedal Room for some time , I think it's cool .

https://www.pedalroom.com/bike/for-s...-pursuit-19696

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When I get a chance I’m going to take a screenshot of my 1986 high school yearbook where I was obsessed with drawing the “Cicli Somec” logos
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Originally Posted by robbyville
I remember this very well! The switch went from indexed to friction shifting. It was Campy’s Response to early ‘SIS’ shimano indexed shifting
those levers were so beautiful, smooth, sculpted
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Old 09-13-19, 11:56 AM
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Cinelli Super Corsa TT.

I can't add too many comments. Fine, not exaggerated shape of geometry. But still, when it leans against the wall, even as if it was rushing


And two Colnago Masters. The first is for the unusual but still great colour combination. The track bike is for its clean, graceful shape.





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Old 09-13-19, 02:05 PM
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A mid 1970s Roberts TT bicycle (built by Charlie Roberts, Geoff Roberts or Derek Bailey - my guess is Charlie) I'm rarely seduced by fancy paintjobs - I've seen what poor worksmanship is often hidden by fancy paint.

First time I have seen hellenic stays on a Colnago

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Old 09-14-19, 10:24 AM
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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan
This is a fantastic post. There is so much excellence that it is hard to know where to begin. I will start with my favorite which is the first Colnago Master in the orange cream color. The paint color is gorgeous and the pattern is cool and it makes a great effect. Look at those lugs! It looks almost like the Arabesque....beautiful. This is why lugs are so much a part of the aesthetic of a bicycle. And look at the color of the downtube shifters! And look at the shape of the tubing. Next to really wow comes the disc wheels. They are awesome for their clever design which matches the frame paint patterns and makes the whole bike look sensational.

The second Colnago has an interesting paint job but what stands out for me is that very cool Campy disc wheel with the four holes. It looks very cool and must be very rare I would imagine. I am afraid to see the price tag on one of these wheels. The Cinelli TT is a bit more ordinary looking but is a fantastic bike I am sure...I do not see very many Cinelli TT's. Someone correct me if I am wrong. I love that saddle for sure. Thank you for the fantastic post and please be sure and post some more TT's in the future. It will help make this thread great.

Thanks for your kind words!

From your topic opener fantastic Paletti Ghibli's handlebar tape reminded me of this other beauty what I've seen before.






Colnago Super/Mexico TT


...and a Master track again with same paint work:




I'll push two other beauties here.A Renaissance Bottecchia (after the Florence Cathedral) and a bold Bianchi. These bikes are obviously not as efficient as Moser's 51.151 bike, but they are very attractive in their aesthetics.



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Old 09-15-19, 05:53 PM
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Here's an interesting late 90's custom frame. Fork isn't original. I just put it on to show the geometry. Interesting seat stay/chain stay design. Tubing is aero-shaped Reynolds 853. Sort of visible in the second photo.


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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan
That is an unusual frame for the late nineties. Are you sure that it is not from the early nineties? The reason I ask is that I have not seen downward sloping top tubes from the that late. I could be wrong but I have just not seen them. If anyone can correct me please do. Maybe it is because it is custom. As I understand it, at some point the sloping tubes and small front wheel were banned for official races. Does this frame fit a 650 front wheel? Forgive my ignorance please. I love the name "Mako Shark" though!

Well thanks for sharing this bike and please do send more pictures of vintage time trial bikes that you really like. Enjoy the ride.
The reason for assuming late 90's is that Reynolds 853 didn't come out until 95, so if that decal is legit, it's at least 95. As for the front wheel, it's possible it had a 650 front wheel, but that would make for an even more aggressive downward slope. Since I don't have the original fork, I can't be sure though. It wasn't until 2000 that the UCI required both wheels to be the same size, so it certainly could have taken 650 front even if used in UCI-regulated races in the late 90's. As I understand the UCI rule, sloping top tubes were still okay, as long as the wheels were the same size and the frame was a triangle.
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Here is the man from Navarre's Espada.


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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan
. Interesting that UCI didn't make that tule till the year 2000
Correction: the 2000 UCI rule was for the hour record. I don’t know the timing of the same size wheel requirement for road TTs. For this bike, though, the slope may be just because of the large frame size, since it is sloping even with both wheels 700c.
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Old 09-16-19, 03:40 AM
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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan
These are very cool and utterly early examples of TT's! Wow. These pictures I have never seen. I love the drama on the faces of the racers. These are very cool bikes and they move the dates back a couple years it looks like. Thanks and please post some more cool pictures. Have a great day. P.S. Can you please post in a reply a link to your sources for these pictures and information. It would help educate me and others. Thanks.
sure, the upper pic is from the Assos company website, and the other i found at a "Textima"-related website. (There are a few but all of them in german i fear)
The history of Textima is fascinating:
Given the very limited resources at hand in the former GDR, what they achieved is nothing short of amazing. They couldn't just buy the newest and best, so they had to be ingenious. They went to wind tunnels, they mixed tubesets, they hand-rolled Reynolds tubes to oval shape and hand-flattened spokes.One of them, Pyttel, is still active with a bike shop in Rastatt near Karlsruhe. He does framebuilding classes in his Textima- and FES-decorated shop which are rumoured to have very long class days ending with story telling. Olaf Ludwig lives nearby and often drops in.





Ludwig, Altig, Pyttel

Cycling legends Olaf Ludwig, Rudi Altig, Christian Pyttel in Pyttels shop. On the wall an German olympic team FES road team TT bike.

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Those Dia-Compe aero brakes are, in my opinion, the most attractive ones from that era, or any era really. I have one on my Schwinn Madison, with a Campy drop bolt to reach the rims as they don't have much room for adjustment.
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This is a poor picture, but it is stored in an upstairs bedroom. This came from someone local to Osell. It reportedly sat in his shop since new and was never sold. Don't know if that is true, but it doesn't look like it was ridden. The saddle and seat post was mine, but all the 105 components came with it. Cool bike and I want to get it on the road at least once.

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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan
I like the red white and blue. This is a cool example of an American time trial and I think this is a bit more affordable. It certainly looks cool. What is your crankset and how does this machine feel when you ride it?
Thanks for the awesome post and please feel free to keep posting more Vintage TT, Crono, Pursuit, Velodrome, as that would be excellent.

Is that a 650C front wheel, or is it even smaller?
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Awesome thread! But still missing the Modolo Kronotech by Bottecchia:

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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan
If you have any pictures of yourself racing a vintage time trial bike or even perched on top of it please post it on this thread. In the meantime and in the interest of getting these out there before they disappear and because these are great pictures I will continue along the same theme:

What is that handlebar? Does it have just half a bar?
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Originally Posted by cocoabeachcrab
put a wood surfboard mini fender on the back to troll the surfers on the beach i ride to.
I love this!! I have two pair of Woody's but I don't think I ever saw this on their site
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Originally Posted by Bianchigirll
I love this!! I have two pair of Woody's but I don't think I ever saw this on their site
he did this as a custom job for me. part of my riding route is by the surfer end of my local beach, so the idea occurred for a surf board fender! here is a the 2nd one he made.
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Nice bikes! I'd love to ride one of those steel ones (Somec? Yes please! :-)) during a triathlon... Would be fun!

Sadly, the wheels need to have the same size nowadays. Even during a triathlon. But still...
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... And a picture of a earlier time when Moser still hadn't fallen victim to a fatal misunderstanding.

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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan
I love this bike and other ones that are like it! So interesting and dramatic. I have not been able to figure out how the bulging front wheel would be helpful as far as air flow dynamics. Maybe somebody could explain that. I love the color on this bike too. I can't even imagine what this bike would cost today as a collector's item. Imagine riding down the street on one of these! Was the frame made of carbon or what? I think the handlebars on this are not original to the bike though. I love FIR disc wheels. Thanks for sharing this most excellent bike. I need one to show up at a garage sale ......ha ha ha.
Look up 'shape effects' on drag', flat plate aerodynamics, etc. I really like the Battaglin!
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Enjoying this thread...

Compared to some of these "exotics" my contribution is quite traditional :-) Another Prologue TT, this one from late '87 (if I am remembering correctly).

Had to dredge up a picture from back in 2015, as it has been hanging at the LBS for awhile and now temporarily stored away. Mostly Tricolor, as that is what I had on hand when I built it back from a bare eBay frame.

I like the color and quality of the paint work, and the fact that it is so unusual to ride. Rode one TT on it, as I figured it deserved it. Interesting experience.

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