Ultimate Bike Thread....

[CurtEgerer]

Must be 85ish on the Casati? Sweet!! And the Colnago's not bad either ....

[greglepore]

Colnago looks like a 92-94ish Art Decor Masterllight with an HSC1...really flexy fork but actually durable and comfortable, I still have one with curved legs I'd love to send to a good home with a short headtube.

[jyl]

I'm not sure - it was during the Giro stage that Andy Hanpsten won, this guy got passed by Hampsten.

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Who's that, John?

[look 171]

Originally Posted by CurtEgerer

Must be 85ish on the Casati? Sweet!! And the Colnago's not bad either ....

I bought that in 85 but that frame had been sitting for a few years at the importer that much I knew. I bet its was an very 80s frame. I raced that thing like hell. It was my first real race bike. I kept most of the original components (Suntour Superbe. All I can afford) in a box and found all the pantograph SR like the first day I saw it in the show room years later when I had a few bucks in my pocket.

[look 171]

Originally Posted by greglepore

Colnago looks like a 92-94ish Art Decor Masterllight with an HSC1...really flexy fork but actually durable and comfortable, I still have one with curved legs I'd love to send to a good home with a short headtube.

Late 90s Masterlight. It has a crack hanger. The chain got sucked into the dropout and it pulled the hanger caused it to have a small crack. I love that fork. Flex or not, I can rider that fork all day long. I have one on my Look 171 which I really loved riding. Not stuff by any means, but it can be ridden all day long. Typical French with a longish top tube.

[CurtEgerer]

Originally Posted by look 171

.... I have one on my Look 171 which I really loved riding .....

You have a Look 171? Who would of guessed?

The KG86 is on my top 5 want-list:

[greglepore]

Tom Kellog did my Technos dropout, including perfect paint, for 350ish. I know you're on the opposite coast, but still...

[intakexhaust]

1965

60 Cycles by Jean-Claude Labrecque, National Film Board of Canada

[intakexhaust]

Coppi in 1942 setting the world hour record --unpaced-- 28.457 mph. On that steed?!

[intakexhaust]

[CurtEgerer]

10 minutes of the 1976 "A Sunday in Hell" documentary:

[herr_oberst]

Does anyone have a source for Shimano small parts? I roached the outside seal on the freehub body of an XT hub, and I have looked and looked for a replacement. 3 bike shops and lots of internet digging have given me no luck at all.

[Joe Bob]

$600, 2nd hand store, Orange CA

[jyl]

Dunno if this is for the right FH but anyway I bet the seal is on eBay somewhere

New Shimano Rear Hub Freehub Body Rubber Seal FH M505 6600 M585 M756 Others | eBay

Does anyone have a source for Shimano small parts? I roached the outside seal on the freehub body of an XT hub, and I have looked and looked for a replacement. 3 bike shops and lots of internet digging have given me no luck at all.

[CurtEgerer]

Coors Classic 1982. Look at the mid-pack rider looking back and thinking, WTF?

[look 171]

They look fat with those numbers hanging off their rears. Look at #70. Talking about catching air, that will take two miles off your avg. speed? I would be scared sihtless.

[look 171]

Originally Posted by CurtEgerer

You have a Look 171? Who would of guessed?

The KG86 is on my top 5 want-list:

Why? Tell me more? Is it because its a Hinault special? When I first saw that, I wanted one so badly but couldn't justified getting one because I had just gotten a new bike. But the 171 or Jalabert special will always a little space in my heart. That was such nice riding bike.

Not too many people know what the heck is Look KG 171.

[CurtEgerer]

Having ridden neither, I suspect the 171 is a much better frame than the 86 given it is 10 years of carbon-frame development later. But the 86's connection to Hinault, Lemond, the 80's, etc. is the attraction. That said, I'd take a 171 in a heartbeat. I happened to find a 1997 Look catalog at a swap meet recently:

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by joe bob

$600, 2nd hand store, orange ca

Cool! "Fixie"? If not put your Deltas on it

[Tom '74 911]

Not really fitting with the recent old school trend in this thread, but here's my new flame... Kind of emotional to relegate old bikes to the shed or ice cream runs w/the kids - we did a lot suffering together!