7/29/14 8:19 AM

http://www.vingle.net/posts/409787-7-Things-to-Remeber-from-Cycling-in-the-80s

7/29/14 9:56 AM

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.

7/29/14 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...

7/29/14 10:40 AM

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!

7/29/14 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.

7/29/14 12:33 PM

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

7/29/14 2:33 PM

Ooooorrrange... good!

7/29/14 5:10 PM

Orange tubulars for that one!

7/29/14 5:54 PM

I was thinking blue with blue saddle and tape. Dark blue of course...

7/29/14 7:13 PM

Actually I have one. A Vittoria Dry Road or something like that. Might even have come with this bike.

Here is The Man with a quite similar bike (note the Colnago Clubs drilled into the chainring).

http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Tour-de-France-Incomparable-Eddy-Merckx-Posters_i326132_.htm?trade=2906008&aid=212782&DestType=7

7/29/14 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.

7/29/14 10:23 PM

I think the rally Vitts came in Orange.

Also the Tufo red is somewhat orange...

7/30/14 5:43 AM

...but I used them all.