Thread: Colnago Mexico made for USSR team 100km time trial race at Moscow Olympics 1980
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Old 01-26-13 | 11:00 PM
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Bikes: 1953 Schwinn Green Phantom, 1957 Schwinn Corvette, 1949 Whizzer, 1959 Girardengo, 1980 Colnago USSR Olympic TT bike, 1982 Colnago Nuovo Mexico, 1994 Colnago Decor, 1996 Colnago Decor, 2002 Colnago Carbonissimo TT, 1982 Bottecchia, 2007 Cervelo, etc.

Thanks, Kactus. I have several sets of NOS SR brakes of various vintages. The first gens had missing fasteners. Eventually I want every part of this bike to be correct. Meantime I want to build it and ride it a bit first. Next to my '84 Nuovo Mexico, this is the most elegantly spidery, minimal bicycle in my collection. Without a rider in place, it's difficult to see just how delicate these frames were!

Here are those four beefy Russians astride their Colnagos during the 2-hour race:



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