Psimet2001 

Sweet...I c's my beetches is representing just over Lemond's left shoulder.

Funny sponsorship package on their jersey. Looks like a Motorola "M" over the right breast instead of Merckx's EM. 1990 was the last 7-Eleven year, and that pic is the last stage of the 1990 TdF so maybe Morotola had already announced it's sponsorship deal?

I so wanted a pair of LeMond drop-ins. I already had the Scott full tri bars, the LeMond clip-ons, etc. I was such a LeMond lackey. I did question the design, but I still wanted them because LeMond rode them.

When they disappeared I figured that they had become illegal.

carpediemracing 

H=M=Hoonved, appliances company.

https://www.hoonved.com/

https://www.prendas.co.uk/details.asp?ID=1645

Hoonved came on as a sponsor in 1986 (I think) when 7-Eleven went to Europe.

cdr

garysol1 

I rode with a guy last week who designs for Alpha Q. He was experimenting with a off shoot of the scotts. It uses a Carbon bar that is bonded into the handlebars. The bar is bonded about 4 inches from the end of the drops and connects to both sides of the handlebars. Basically just a straight carbon bar that runs just in front of the head tube. It looked a little funny but I guess you could get pretty aero with it if you were flexible enough.

Psimet2001 

Uhhh...yeah...Hoonved. Why are you talking about Hoonved?? My comment had nothing to do with Hoonved. You're looking at the wrong part of the jersey. Try in the green field just below the American Airline patch. You'll see a Motorola "M"...it will be in the location where there is the Eddy Merckx logo on the link you pasted.

Since you brought Hoonved up though here's one for you: what's the Swiss version of their name that was used on uniforms during the Tour of Switzerland?

*Dee-de-de-de-de-de-deeeeee, de-de-de-de-deee-d-d-d-d-d-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-deee....*

ed073

American Airlines logo.

Psimet2001 

nope...a little lower...

Moochers_Dad

I found another one:


(graham watson photo)

Psimet2001 

Early carbon fork (not sure if that is one....), crappy calipers, flexible bars....it's amazing those guys made it down the other side in one piece.

ed073

Yep....TVT carbon. Remember shiny bike ribbon bartape?? Old Skool....

patentcad

It's the motor boys. Greg Lemond would have kicked our collective asses on a Schwinn Stingray.



Check out the bikes they were doing the Tour de France with in the 1940's some time.

Psimet2001 

Not saying he wouldn't. I was just thinking about how LeMond described in his book how much the early carbon forks flexed while braking. Combined that with the known poor baking performance those Campy calipers were known for and I just had this image of the descent being a very interesting one.

At least he had the drop ins.

carpediemracing 

Ah I thought you mistakened the H for an M. I didn't look at the green bit.

I don't know off hand the TdeS version - fill us in.

cdr

Psimet2001 

WAMASCH...

https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=320144737621

I was clued into it during a sale of one of Andy Hampsten's jerseys from the tour of Switzerland. The only ones that were ever made with that spelling were team issue for that race (over multiple years).

classic1

Plastic Benotto tape. Craptacularly slippery handlebar tape, in all the lairy 1980's flouro colours of the rainbow. I used cloth tape......

ed073

my 1st Malvern Star had cloth tape....used to move all over the friggen place.

Traded up to that awful shiny vinyl stuff that faded from yellow to white...a la Lucho Herrera/Cafe de Colombia circa 1987

Psimet2001 

I loved that stuff. You could re-use it and re-use it. Perfect for the days of quill stems. I was a kid with little dough and that stuff was cheap enough I could change the look of my bike as often as I wanted.

I think I used to be able to buy it for under $2.50.

redtires

You know, come to think of it, there was another incarnation of these bars. They had a "bridge" that joined the lower "flats" of the drop-in after they jutted forward again. It created a little aero position in the center of the bar, just under the stem. I googled a bunch of combos for a pic, but could not find one. Anyone remember which "drop-in" those were? I had a pair once....a really long time ago.

f1junkie

I remember those as well - they made them look like aero bars. Certainly a lot of twisted and curvy metal on those! I don't remember the name though....

Dave

woody72

Got a spare set in the garage i like them so much i trawled ebay for some more. the only trouble i have is getting tape long enough for them!

j. hughes

^I was wondering how to wrap these Scott bars I just acquired. What tape do you use?

Joseminario

Never used these bars but I thought the extra positions looked really cool. Is anybody willing to sell them? Never could find them anywhere.

H1449-6

I used to run these with Off the Front bar tape. Loved that stuff. Don't think you can get it any more.

Bob Dopolina 

I broke 2 pair. Luckily neither was involved in or caused a crash.

recon455

Oh God. I read almost the entire first page before I found out this thread was from 2007. I was wondering why all the links were broken.

Bob Dopolina 

Got me, too.