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Old 10-31-13 | 04:23 PM
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Bikes: 72 Cilo Pacer, 72 Gitane GT, 72 Peugeot PX10, 73 Speedwell Ti,l, 75 Peugeot PR-10L, 80 Colnago Super, 81 Zinn, 85 ALAN Cross, 85 De Rosa Pro, 86 Look 753, 86 Look KG86, 89 Parkpre Team, 90 Parkpre Team MTB, 90 Merlin

So many good options, several suggested already:
Fuso
Merckx in 7-11 livery
Merlin
Tesch 101
Zunow
Eisentraut
+1 to Serotta
+1 to 3Rensho & Nagasawa
+1 to Landshark, but I think they are often too flamboyent for your more elegant tastes.


Originally Posted by WNG
Easy choice for me....
Look 753 like Gaucho777's. Iconic bike and livery. Easily recognized and still contemporary looking today. Worthy of a group that reset the benchmark for years.
Thanks, I appreciate the nod, but the Look 753s wore C-record when they were introduced in '86. The following year, the La Vie Claire team switched to DA (to the chagrin of the Campagnolo company, to be sure), but by that time the team was no longer using the 753 frames. If I recall correctly, they were mainly using the Look-branded TVT carbon frames after the switch to DA7400, so that might be another option. Not to say you couldn't do it, but I think the Mondrian 753 Looks are more appropriately adorned with Campy. In any event, I think there were only about 500 of the 753 Look frames made--and probably less than 50 in your size--so finding one would be a real challenge.
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