Road Test/Bike Review (1987) SEROTTA 7-Eleven TdF Team Issue
05-03-23, 04:37 AM
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Road Test/Bike Review (1987) SEROTTA 7-Eleven TdF Team Issue
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Always nice to see a Huffy featured so prominently.
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I don't know the full story, but weren't there issues with the True-Temper tubing and Serotta's design? or was it just the tubing itself? I understood there were hard feelings all around(?)
Was any of this reported on BITD?
Was any of this reported on BITD?
05-03-23, 09:11 PM
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FWIW: 1988 is the year Andy Hampsten won the Giro d'Italia - on a "Huffy" with a frame that was actually neither by Huffy nor Serotta. He'd broken a team-issue, Serotta-built frame earlier that season and rode the Giro on a frame he'd had custom made by John Slawta of Land Shark.
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The campy equipped huffy I always wanted.
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Thanks for the links to he articles, Hondo6 . Both are fun reads.
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great article and great bike
thanks for sharing
thanks for sharing
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Can't speak for 1987, but there certainly were in 1988. Short version, quoted from the article: ". . . . failure was eventually sourced back to an errant shipment by the builder's tubing supplier . . . ." Read the article and this one for more details. Can't comment on how well this was reported at the time.
FWIW: 1988 is the year Andy Hampsten won the Giro d'Italia - on a "Huffy" with a frame that was actually neither by Huffy nor Serotta. He'd broken a team-issue, Serotta-built frame earlier that season and rode the Giro on a frame he'd had custom made by John Slawta of Land Shark.
FWIW: 1988 is the year Andy Hampsten won the Giro d'Italia - on a "Huffy" with a frame that was actually neither by Huffy nor Serotta. He'd broken a team-issue, Serotta-built frame earlier that season and rode the Giro on a frame he'd had custom made by John Slawta of Land Shark.
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thanks for sharing. I enjoyed it.
