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I like to do one L'Eroica ride some day. I don't have shoes with cleats anymore. Throw 'em all out. Modern shoe are too thick (with 10 speed drive cleats) and find it very difficult to just kick the quit and flip the pedal and enter the cage. Being strapped in is a must for me on any ride.

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I was going thru some photos and came across my 1987 Alpineer when I first got it. It's been TEN years! Doesn't seem possible. There's some discussion way back in this thread and that was very helpful in determining exactly what I had. I rode the bike fairly regularly the first couple of years, but it's become a wall hanger (wall art?). But for the 10th anniversary, I got it down today, detailed it, tuned it and took it out for a ride. What a fantastic bike. 7-speed downtube shifter corncob freewheel hollow pin chain awesomeness. That early 7400 Dura Ace derailleur with SIS shifters is crisp and flawless.

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Today's useless cycling trivia:

1. Pinarello is the #1 winning TdF bike. 15 wins (including both the steel and carbon eras).

2. All of Lance Armstrong's Trek TdF bikes had a downtube shifter for the front derailleur and a standard brifter for the rear derailleur. This is generally said to be for a 2-3 ounce weight savings. Maybe. I think it may have been more to eliminate the possibility of an accidental shift when braking.

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No, they did that to save weight. Those 8 spd shifters were boat anchors (that why they were so durable). Many of us did that too only because we wanted to be cool like the pros, just like cutting the outer part of the platform off the Campy road pedals for better corner clearance and 2 grams of weight saving but the cool factor, priceless. It didn't make much difference in terms of cornering. Oh, lets not forget the removal of plastic dust caps off Super Record cranks or any cranks for that matter.

I rode with one down tube lever for about 3 months and thought, this is dumb. I can shift much faster going up hill while off the saddle then having to sit and shift with my left hand. Those beautiful DA down tube levers were given away. I was never going to need them again.

What is the #1 winning component in the TDF? I still want to say its is Campy by adding all those years from the 50s or the 60s. Shimano sure had caught up in the past 30 years.

Campagnolo is still king at 43 victories (including recent wins with Pogecar.)

Shimano Dura Ace has 11 (18 if you count Lance). Lance's 1999 'win' was the first for Shimano which is surprising because they were in the peloton since at least the mid-80s with 7-Eleven.

Simplex has 10. Sram and Huret have 3 each. Super Champion had 2. Mavic has 1.

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I snagged a Moots Mooto X YBB frame recently. It’ll be a bit of a work in progress for a bit as I scavenged what I could from another bike. Lefty Ocho on the front and a White Ind ENO rear hub for chain tensioning to run it as a single speed.
I’ll probably grab a set of M960 XTR cranks on eBay and modify them a for 1x. The saddle, seat post, and stem will be upgraded shortly as well.

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"Hey, Eddy, can you help me cold-set this frame? For some reason I'm really struggling with this one..."