Originally Posted by
retrofit
Joe,
Check out
DiabloScott's blog entries for 7-11 bikes.
If you scroll down near the end of the page he states:
"From the same catalogue as above, the 1990 line also included a "Team" model that had the "7-Eleven Team sticker - I had previously thought that the sticker was only for actual team issue bikes."
At one time I held that only the official team bikes had the 7-Eleven sticker... then
Tears for Gears linked me to that catalogue page and I retracted my statements.
More recently I contended that the official team bikes all had the number hanger instead of a pump peg, but now I doubt that as well. If you look at the Winning piece on Dag Otto's bike you'll see what appears to be lack of a number hanger in one photo, and in another photo a number attached in a way that you wouldn't expect if there were a number hanger.
http://diabloscott.blogspot.com/2000...t_archive.html
I'm inclined to think Joe's bike is the real deal because 1) the serial number doesn't correspond to the production bikes that Jeremy has numbers for
LINK, and 2) the Hampsten decal is just too good.