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dan emery
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 6890
Location: Maine7/29/14 9:56 AM |
random memories from the '80s
SIS ("Stupid Idiot Shifting"), and Croce d'Aune (the ultimate, unrivalled and unsurpassed POS Gruppo, which I unfortunately bought).
'83 was a good year for bikes, as I bought a candy blue Serotta Club Special and a black Fat Chance (both of which I still have).
I had a cool. aero Roval front wheel (sewup), which I think was late '80s. Think I still have it.
Clement red sewup glue, Kucharik Fish Oil Chamois Fat. Clement Campione del Mondos (seta).
I'll stop now.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19084
Location: PDX7/29/14 10:04 AM |
I think except the 80s bikes, Nago and Bridgestone, the 72 Paramount... early 90s Stump jumper, these all still in inventory...
I have some of the original 16 spoke tubular Mavic Cosmic Aero wheels. I like to call them flywheels.
with a 16 spoke rear, I am afraid to push much into them. Not to mention not used tubulars since my first Paramount ride where I hit a chunk of glass on a new Clement and all the sealant poo-ed out. Down to two sets now, guess I am done...
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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3377
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT7/29/14 10:40 AM |
The more things change...
My probably-favorite-bikes-of-all-time (PfbOAT, for readers of long and strange novels) are the mid-1980s Treks. I still miss the 560 that got killed a couple of years ago.
Aside from that: Weird sunglasses? Ugly helmets? Man, the more they stay the same!
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dddd
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3345
Location: NorCal7/29/14 11:49 AM |
Hard to kill the Imron paint on those 80's Treks, and I still have my '84 520, which did 10 years of commuting. I used to bomb the rockpile gravel that paralleled the railroad tracks on my way to work at NASA, using those first-version, solid-Kevlar-strapped Armadillos, and that bike never spit me off. It was a most intense daily wake-up ride for sure.
These are the 1980's sunglasses that I raced in up until this year. I recently set them down while perusing a Church rummage sale, and another customer bought them!
Must have done a couple of hundred races in these things. They were special in that they directed air/dust well away from my eyes, even under the worst conditions.
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dan emery
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 6890
Location: Maine7/29/14 12:33 PM |
Done with tubulars
Ha Ha, I'm riding a Merckx (non-aero) 2 man tt with Rick Sunday, and I'll ride the Sachs which has clinchers, but I had a fleeting thought that for a Merckx tt I should ride my '77 Colnago Eddy Merckx Special (drilled and fluted). Then I thought Rick might not be entirely happy sitting 6" off a 37 year old Nisi sewup wheel...
http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=1ActGblq5bsWGH
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19084
Location: PDX7/29/14 2:33 PM |
Ooooorrrange... good!
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dddd
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3345
Location: NorCal7/29/14 5:10 PM |
Orange tubulars for that one!
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19084
Location: PDX7/29/14 5:54 PM |
I was thinking blue with blue saddle and tape. Dark blue of course...
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dddd
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3345
Location: NorCal7/29/14 9:42 PM |
I ran 22mm Michelin Liberty tubulars with orange tread about 15 years ago, but they were cheap tires.
I've got Vittoria tubulars with orange tread, also cheap.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19084
Location: PDX7/29/14 10:23 PM |
I think the rally Vitts came in Orange.
Also the Tufo red is somewhat orange...
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Brian Nystrom
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5101
Location: Nashua, NH7/30/14 5:43 AM |
I had a bunch of orange Conti Sprinters...
...but I used them all.
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