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Speaking of 80s aero-bikes, there's this Rossin advert. I'm sure there's some sort of relevance between aero-bikes and laser beams but it escapes me at the moment.
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Looks like the Impaler is one off project by Crono Metro in Madison, WI.
Fixed Gear Gallery Coverage of 2011 Heartland Velo Show |
Laser nipples. How eighties!
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For those that don't label their pics....:rolleyes:
1937: A bit of mechanical help for the Italian rider Gino Sciardis. In 1937, riders used derailers to change gears for the first time. All riders used the same model, the "Super Champion" from the Swiss producer Oscar Egg. Prior to the introduction of derailers, riders were forced to stop and switch out their back wheels prior to climbs. This boy has some definition..... Quote:
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I had this grupo.....stupid and sold it.....
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world 1 mile track cycling championship in 1899
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1381539960.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi.../72/Paris2.jpg European tour in 1902 where he entered 57 races and won 40 of them....most have never heard of him..... |
^^^^ Major Taylor.
About those vintage track bikes, quite a few have been circulating on the market. (Priced similar to a newer low end model carbon bike.) If I was in the 'fix' for a fixie would go for one of those oldies. Thousands of the racers were made but sadly melted down during war times. Coaster bikes were saved for reason of primary transportation. |
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His real first name was Marshall....;)
Anyways, there are a few sub 17lbs track bikes on fleaBay....under 1800USD. Including a few Paramounts and an Eddy Merckx....... 17.5lbs.....7.5Kg? seem to remember some at 6Kg..... |
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Super Champion was the derailleur brand of Oscar Egg, one of the giants of cycling history, and a man who should surely have had best pals named Horace Herring and Mr Potato Head - but I digress.
Oscar Egg was an outstanding Swiss track rider who set the World Hour Record three times before the First World War. To round out his palmares he won stages of both the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia. He is also something of a hero of the Human Powered Vehicle movement as he built recumbent and fully faired aerodynamic bicycles between the two World Wars. Oscar Egg owned a bicycle shop/workshop in Avenue des Grandes Armees in Paris. In 1932 he introduced the Champion derailleur, a device which involved a derailing fork mechanism attached to the seat stay and a chain tensioner that was attached to the chainstay just behind the bottom bracket. This was a similar design to a 1928 Vittoria. Oscar Egg refined this design over the next several years and in 1933 it became known as the Super Champion. By 1935 the Super Champion had assumed its famous form, with the derailing fork attached beneath the chainstay and the chain tensioner attached to the base of the downtube. This gear was enthusiastically adopted by the racing fraternity, and it was largely pressure from Super Champion, and Super Champion users, which cajoled the Tour de France organisers into allowing derailleurs into the Tour from 1937. The 1937 and 1939 Tours were won using Super Champion derailleurs, with the 1938 Tour being won using the conceptually similar Vittoria Margherita. The famous legend is that derailleurs had such an impact that the last rider in the 1937 Tour averaged the same speed as the winner of the 1936 version. The effect on the cycle racing world was immediate and substantial, Frank Berto reports that Oscar Egg sold over a million Super Champion derailleurs in the period from 1932 to 1939. In addition to his racing derailleurs, Oscar Egg also introduced touring models, the Super Champion Route and the Super Champion Grand Sport, these were derailleurs with two pulley wheels that attached to the chainstay. However designs that used pulley wheels never really captured Oscar Egg’s interest, and as the derailing fork designs (deservedly) fell out of favour, Super Champion ended up licensing twin pulley designs from other manufacturers. By the mid 1950’s Super Champion had stopped making derailleurs. In addition to his derailleurs, Oscar Egg made extravagantly cut out lugs, and branded them as Super Champion. I have a fanciful notion that the famous Super Champion aluminium rims (including the much loved Model 58 touring rim) may have been produced by the descendant of Oscar Egg’s company - but I have no evidence for this aside from the fact that they are both French, share the same brand name and used a somewhat similar type face in their logo. The Super Champion rim company was taken over by Wolber, perhaps in the 1980’s, and I think Wolber, in turn, was taken over by Michelin, perhaps in the 1990’s. Wolber continued to use ‘Super Champion’ as a sub-brand until possibly the early 1990’s. In Britain Super Champion derailleurs were imported by the Constrictor Tyre Company and rebranded as Osgear. |
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Great stuff. Those early racers were savages. Had to be to survive. Those six day events must have nutz but after reading of the early T de France days, makes todays riders look like weenies. Rabid crowds were just as bad. Mostly to cheer but others just to create mayhem. Bottles and garbage thrown at riders as fascist national teams would come thru. (Done to show support of their own local riders.). Many beaten up, racers could only charge the crowds running with the bike as a shield.
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^^^^ choice! Check out that chain tensioner. Chain is hardly making use of the chainwheel.
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Played for awhile today with the 50's Steyr Higgins. Very much a budget build - drive train 3 x 2 works good but has the wrong tensioner. Internal 3 sp. hub and front 46 / 52 with suicide shifter. Can swap the final 18T fairly easy to a 14T. Finally found some period correct 700C swiss weinmann rims to git er' done. Pimped wide gold chain... ala BMX stuff out of the junk box. Was thinking of secretly hiding a small Austrian dagger in the end of the handlebar. Quick surprise release to keep the boyz in the city hood off of me and yanking this ride.
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Would love to see some close up pics or diagrams......
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After I took the pics, finished rear shift cable, brakes. Went with heavier upgrade Weinmann cables. Most everything on it is Swiss or Austrian. Exception are the toe clips, saddle and water bottle but all from the 50's.
Need to find the correct tensioner http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1381554442.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1381554494.jpg 165mm Steyr cottered crank arms http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1381554527.jpg |
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^^^ recent cyclocross event?
Doing some research and came across this vintage mountain bike conversion circa 1967. 1961 was the last time the JC Higgins name was used. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1381630958.jpg Neat story on wombat: MOMBAT: 1967 JC Higgins Klunker |
The tat......
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1381786288.jpg The cover up..... http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1381786325.jpg Not sure which is worse....... |
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did someone mention Huffy? LOL
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The real story of Andy Hampsten's 'Huffy' (Land Shark). Interesting note what happened with the Serotta.
Historic Pro Bike: Andy Hampsten's 1988 7-Eleven Huffy Giro D'Italia | Cyclingnews.com |
That's so cool. I remembered that 88 Giro like it was yesterday.
John started messing with frames from his Art Center days. I remember hanging out at his garage after training rides. He was one of the very first guys who painted bikes with crazy colors unlike the traditional single color frames of its time. It was the ugliest paint scheme the first time I saw it while wheel sucking on a long flat road with one of our hot local ripping our legs off us. Unusual that's for sure. |
The 80's revisited. Couldn't agree with you more on the paint 7-11 but the play on Huffy :D That team too, just incredible how it came to be.
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walk by this place everyday.
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I remember those days well. Most guys had their bikes custom build to their specs. Not just the 7-11 boys, but the continental division 1 prod did as well. Look at Edwig Van hooydonck's Colnago with the very longish headtube above the headset and the crazy long seat pin. I bet that thing had an extremely long top tube for him. Those were the good old days where the 7-11 team went to Europe as underdogs and gave them a kicking. I remember Phinney won a stage in the tour.
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