Ultimate Bike Thread....

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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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Originally Posted by CurtEgerer

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.

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.

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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.

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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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[HHI944]

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..."

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Here's a good one for you old farts that like old bikes. Yep, I and many of you were like him, back when I was 16, can't afford them but found the Italian bikes a work of art like a bunch of Ferrari.

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^^^ I'll take the Pinarello! And it's my size. Very nice collection. My own collection is expanding to 8 as of late. I've got a new vintage frame incoming today or tomorrow

I would travel to Italy solely to visit this shop:

Italian Steel Bike

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^^^ Speaking of old farts ... I got dropped by a 70+ year old the other day Well, technically not dropped because I was doing a disciplined zone-2 training ride when the guy blew by me. I could've hopped on his wheel, but that's impolite at best. Either way, this dude was motoring!

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And now for something completely different

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A new project. It's always a gamble buying online Frame arrived well packed and in an undamaged box. Open it up and immediately see 2 dents in the top tube and some distortion of the tube ... none of this disclosed of course. Luckily, the seller stepped up and made it right by refunding most of my money and me keeping the frame. I was thinking wallhanger for the man cave. But yesterday I got out the trusty kitchen rolling pin and started to massage the dents. I've done this before with good success. Unlike frame blocks and a vise, this doesn't damage the paint. Still working on it, but at least a 75% improvement already. The frame was repainted by CycleArt and they did a great job other than one of the decals being crooked - how does that happen on a high-end paint job!!

I've always wanted a Bob Jackson. I had a Columbus KL (equivalent to 753) frame built for me in 1979 by Matt Assenmacher who apprenticed with Jackson. And one of my brothers bought a Jackson from Bikecology in 1977 (he still has it,mint and largely unridden). If I get this frame to where I want it, I'll do a full period-correct 1983 Campagnolo Nuovo Record build on it. Right now, I've got 2 projects ahead of it.

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It that about a 52 c toc? 83 was Stupid Record by then. I remember they brought them in around 82 at Bikecology, that and Mondonico. We use to ride the 18 miles one way to the bikecology or Santa Monica and back once a week after school as our training ride. Man, I tell ya, talking about interval? We has to constantly sprint around the cars and especially the buses the entire way there and back in rush hour traffic on Santa Monica Blvd. Fun times. We would be home just in time for dinner. We had clips and straps then and did track stands at all the lights and stops on the way out (took our foot out at the turn around point) and back in rush hour traffic. I was only able to do that twice in all those years of doing that ride. Stupid things kids do for fun.

Joe Bob normally do a very nice job. I am surprise the decals are not straight. He painted a frame for me about 20 years ago. The work was good only I broke it in a crash few year later.

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Would it be fun if we can get together and go to the concourse at L'Eroica?

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It's a 51cm. Both dents are now 95% gone. 85% with the rolling pin. Remaining 10% with a crude frame block I made and a clamp. I've got a bit more to do on that front but the frame has been saved. I didn't think they'd come out this good.