Post your Centurion Ironman.. For the love of 80s paint jobs!
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Here's a good price, great bike.https://dallas.craigslist.org/sdf/bi...029746882.html
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RobbieTunes texaspandj Does your guys carbons have the Date stamp and a CF## stamp. at first i thought it was a partial or a short Serial number but now that i think about it. It maybe the size stamp for the dropouts. and stamped date is dropout creation date?
this frame is about a 59-60cm frame so a CF60 stamped in the drop on both sides i would guess denotes the size/Material frame the dropouts work on.
here is my inside of the NDS dropout.
this frame is about a 59-60cm frame so a CF60 stamped in the drop on both sides i would guess denotes the size/Material frame the dropouts work on.
here is my inside of the NDS dropout.
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Speaking of serial numbers the general thought was that (as an example) the '87s with '86 serial numbers were simply carry over frames from '86 to '87. BUT NO! The serial numbers were, but not frames. MVs with '86 SN are a perfect point to illustrate as they are Experts completely different frames than what were offered in '86.
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Speaking of serial numbers the general thought was that (as an example) the '87s with '86 serial numbers were simply carry over frames from '86 to '87. BUT NO! The serial numbers were, but not frames. MVs with '86 SN are a perfect point to illustrate as they are Experts completely different frames than what were offered in '86.
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^^^^ I think @T-Mar hit it on the head (pun slightly intended) up-thread a ways, that someone reached for the N block, and the M was right next to it, and....
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How do you like those Mavic Cosmic wheels? I'm kinda tempted. Probably for another bike, not my Ironman. I'm building up a Diamondback Podium carbon frame from odds and ends in the parts bins, but don't have a wheelset yet.
I've been pleasantly surprised by how good an older set of Bontrager Race Lite Aero wheels have been as all-around wheels. I snagged 'em off an older Trek TT/tri bike with a cracked frame but everything else was good. All alloy, not lightweight, but reasonable rim depth (I'm not getting blown off the road even in 20+ mph crosswinds), 16 flat aero spokes per wheel, decent DT Swiss hubs. I planned to save 'em for special occasions but they've become my all-around wheels on an early '90s Trek 5900. Some of our roads are so rough I usually need to true my Araya and Wolber wheels every couple of weeks to fix minor wobbles. But the Bontrager sorta-aero wheels have been stiff and steady, although not as comfy as the older Ironman era wheels for everyday riding.
I've been pleasantly surprised by how good an older set of Bontrager Race Lite Aero wheels have been as all-around wheels. I snagged 'em off an older Trek TT/tri bike with a cracked frame but everything else was good. All alloy, not lightweight, but reasonable rim depth (I'm not getting blown off the road even in 20+ mph crosswinds), 16 flat aero spokes per wheel, decent DT Swiss hubs. I planned to save 'em for special occasions but they've become my all-around wheels on an early '90s Trek 5900. Some of our roads are so rough I usually need to true my Araya and Wolber wheels every couple of weeks to fix minor wobbles. But the Bontrager sorta-aero wheels have been stiff and steady, although not as comfy as the older Ironman era wheels for everyday riding.
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Speaking of serial numbers the general thought was that (as an example) the '87s with '86 serial numbers were simply carry over frames from '86 to '87. BUT NO! The serial numbers were, but not frames. MVs with '86 SN are a perfect point to illustrate as they are Experts completely different frames than what were offered in '86.
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Ultimately, when it comes to Ironman Bikes, there are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown knowns?....wait what....
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Jetboy had stated when he thinks of Miami Vice he thinks teal and white, I tend to agree with that. However Ironkids have adopted and embraced the magenta and marigold as our own Miami Vice and So It Goes.
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One of the other bike companies(Nishiki, I think) had a teal/pink bike. Don't look it up, though. You might get their ad with the guy in the banana hammock. That might burn you eyes. It might not be a banana hammock, but his package is front and center.
Also, the other Japanese market Expert that appeared on the thread was teal with a silver or pink head tube.
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I dug up the post I was talking about, where two bikes were referred to as MV. I didn't look closely. The other MV is a Tommaso. My bad.
Edit: wrong link.
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^^^^^ Only on BF can a thread about a particular make/model of bike turn into a discussion of.... er.... unusual occupational hazards.
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It's only a hazard if you view it as such. The readers love to get their pictures taken with the models and the models seem to like the attention. Or they're getting paid well enough to pretend...
Quite a different vibe from the tax conferences I attend. No one there is partially clothed, thank goodness.
Quite a different vibe from the tax conferences I attend. No one there is partially clothed, thank goodness.
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^^^^^ Please, don't make us picture it.....
Careful, one of these years, you'll have a tax conference and an authors' conference at the same time, in the same conference center.
Careful, one of these years, you'll have a tax conference and an authors' conference at the same time, in the same conference center.
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Here's a good price, great bike.https://dallas.craigslist.org/sdf/bi...029746882.html
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Mostly I'm wanting one more Ironman to set up as a dedicated TT/tri bike. I'll never ride a triathlon but would like to tackle the state time trial event next year. So having one bike set up with aero bars would give me plenty of time to adapt.
I did have a Trek tri/TT bike but the frame was cracked so I cannibalized the parts for another frame. Some good stuff, including carbon fiber aero bars with 10-speed Dura Ace bar-end shifters, bullhorns and aero brakes, etc. An Ironman frame would be lighter than that Trek aero frame (aluminum and very heavy) and probably more comfy.
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How do you like those Mavic Cosmic wheels? I'm kinda tempted. Probably for another bike, not my Ironman. I'm building up a Diamondback Podium carbon frame from odds and ends in the parts bins, but don't have a wheelset yet.
I've been pleasantly surprised by how good an older set of Bontrager Race Lite Aero wheels have been as all-around wheels. I snagged 'em off an older Trek TT/tri bike with a cracked frame but everything else was good. All alloy, not lightweight, but reasonable rim depth (I'm not getting blown off the road even in 20+ mph crosswinds), 16 flat aero spokes per wheel, decent DT Swiss hubs. I planned to save 'em for special occasions but they've become my all-around wheels on an early '90s Trek 5900. Some of our roads are so rough I usually need to true my Araya and Wolber wheels every couple of weeks to fix minor wobbles. But the Bontrager sorta-aero wheels have been stiff and steady, although not as comfy as the older Ironman era wheels for everyday riding.
I've been pleasantly surprised by how good an older set of Bontrager Race Lite Aero wheels have been as all-around wheels. I snagged 'em off an older Trek TT/tri bike with a cracked frame but everything else was good. All alloy, not lightweight, but reasonable rim depth (I'm not getting blown off the road even in 20+ mph crosswinds), 16 flat aero spokes per wheel, decent DT Swiss hubs. I planned to save 'em for special occasions but they've become my all-around wheels on an early '90s Trek 5900. Some of our roads are so rough I usually need to true my Araya and Wolber wheels every couple of weeks to fix minor wobbles. But the Bontrager sorta-aero wheels have been stiff and steady, although not as comfy as the older Ironman era wheels for everyday riding.