Old 10-29-11 | 11:49 AM
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Bikes: 2020 Masi Giramondo 700c; 2013 Lynskey Peloton; 1992 Giant Rincon; 1989 Dawes needs parts; 1985 Trek 660; 1985 Fuji Club; 1984 Schwinn Voyager; 1984 Miyata 612; 1977 Raleigh Competition GS

If I won the lottery I would not be the first in line for a plastic bike that's for sure! I may be first in line for a top of the line Lynskey Ti bike custom built for my specifics though!! I would also be in line for buying a couple of Italian vintage bikes too, but at current going prices and current financial common sense tells me not to waste my money. I have more important things to do with my money then to buy expensive Italian bikes. Besides I have 4 vintage Japanese bikes and 2 American vintage bikes all from the 80's, I good with those. But alas I don't play the lottery so I have zero chance of winning...which is the same chance of winning if I played the lottery!! The lottery is just a poor mans tax.

This crap about Suntour never winning a TDF and only Campy did in the 80's, left out one important fact...neither did Shimano until 1999!!! Why? Because European racers and a lot of American racers snubbed Japanese equipment. I use to race, not pro just cat 3, in the early to mid 80s, and I raced on Japanese stuff (I was in the minority of Japanese users), and I got the backlash from the elitists that raced on nothing but Italian bikes and components. It was all about the snob appeal which is why Suntour AND Shimano didn't win and were rarely found being used in the TDF until the 90's but by then Suntour was gone. The same can be said about SRAM, but this last TDF race SRAM had 9 teams running on SRAM components, next year there will be a lot more which means they stand a greater chance of winning the TDF then even Shimano does next year!

Shimano did have stage victories starting as early as 1973 in TDF's which upsetted many a European, but the TDF win didn't come until 1999 due to the shear number of teams using Shimano vs a very limited number of teams using the stuff back the 70's. Raleigh had race teams in the TDF using Suntour stuff by the way, and if memory serves me I think Schwinn had a some Suntour stuff in TDF races.

But all this component group brand winning a race is nonsense, it isn't the component who wins, it's the rider who makes the win.
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