Ultimate Bike Thread....

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[Joe Bob]

Ran a search on this.....nada. What up?

[porsche930dude]

watch out for potholes

[CurtEgerer]

Originally Posted by porsche930dude

watch out for potholes

It's not called the Impaler for nothing

[CurtEgerer]

[herr_oberst]

^^^^Citroen?

[CurtEgerer]

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.

[porsche4life]

Looks like the Impaler is one off project by Crono Metro in Madison, WI.


Fixed Gear Gallery Coverage of 2011 Heartland Velo Show

[herr_oberst]

Laser nipples. How eighties!

[Joe Bob]

For those that don't label their pics....

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.....

Originally Posted by CurtEgerer

[Joe Bob]

I had this grupo.....stupid and sold it.....




Shifted like frozen crap in a punchbowl......but God it was pretty.

[Joe Bob]

world 1 mile track cycling championship in 1899



European tour in 1902 where he entered 57 races and won 40 of them....most have never heard of him.....

[intakexhaust]

^^^^ 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.

[intakexhaust]

Originally Posted by CurtEgerer

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.

time for girls and bike thread?

[Joe Bob]

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.....

[look 171]

Originally Posted by Joe Bob

world 1 mile track cycling championship in 1899



European tour in 1902 where he entered 57 races and won 40 of them....most have never heard of him.....

They even named a velodrome after him.

[intakexhaust]

Originally Posted by Joe Bob

For those that don't label their pics....

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.....

Just started reading Road To Valor pub. released 2012. Story of Gino Bartali. Talks of 1937 and the derailleur permitted in competition. Anyhow, so far the book is outstanding. Could see it made into an epic movie.

[Joe Bob]

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.

[Joe Bob]

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