Show off your Specialized Allez
12-09-15, 03:25 PM
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Show off your Specialized Allez
Post up your Allez pics. I would love to see them. Old or new.
I can't be the only person who has an Allez fetish. Ever since the film "America Fliers", I have been hooked. I'm looking to add a 2015 or a 2016 Allez to my stable this year unless I find a deal I can't pass up on something else.
OK on with the Allez Porn.
1995 Allez Sport
1993 Allez PRO
1986 Allez SE Jim Merz Edition
I can't be the only person who has an Allez fetish. Ever since the film "America Fliers", I have been hooked. I'm looking to add a 2015 or a 2016 Allez to my stable this year unless I find a deal I can't pass up on something else.
OK on with the Allez Porn.
1995 Allez Sport
1993 Allez PRO
1986 Allez SE Jim Merz Edition
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Originally Posted by iab
Why do you mock the cycling gods?
Your only hope is reciting 10 hail campagnolos to our lady of the duraace.
Your only hope is reciting 10 hail campagnolos to our lady of the duraace.
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12-09-15, 03:30 PM
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My old 93 Pro I haul back from Oregon looks pretty good...for a Specialized. lol. Oh my God what am I saying??? Hahaha.
12-09-15, 03:33 PM
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My old 93 Pro I haul back from Oregon looks pretty good...for a Specialized. lol. Oh my God what am I saying??? Hahaha.
12-09-15, 03:44 PM
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I picked up the frame just days before left Oregon because it was such a good deal. Was full 8spd Tri Color 600. The group went to another C&V member and now Cory has this and I ended up with some green backs.
12-10-15, 05:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Frogbutter
Post up your Allez pics. I would love to see them. Old or new.
I can't be the only person who has an Allez fetish. Ever since the film "America Fliers", I have been hooked. I'm looking to add a 2015 or a 2016 Allez to my stable this year unless I find a deal I can't pass up on something else.
OK on with the Allez Porn.
1995 Allez Sport
1993 Allez PRO¡
I can't be the only person who has an Allez fetish. Ever since the film "America Fliers", I have been hooked. I'm looking to add a 2015 or a 2016 Allez to my stable this year unless I find a deal I can't pass up on something else.
OK on with the Allez Porn.
1995 Allez Sport
1993 Allez PRO¡
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Well look what the cat dragged in. Such a fine addition to the thread
Well look what the cat dragged in. Such a fine addition to the thread
12-10-15, 06:25 AM
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I have a crazy collection of Allez from 1981 to 2000 but here's the one that recently topped my list, a 1986 with Tange Prestige tubing and "new" Dura Ace. This bike rides sooo well!
IMG_5828
by Jim Harris, on Flickr
IMG_5828by Jim Harris, on Flickr
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12-10-15, 06:28 AM
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Wow. I didn't know the Allez line included such beauties. Just wow. It would top about any list.
Originally Posted by leaping_gnome
I have a crazy collection of Allez from 1981 to 2000 but here's the one that recently topped my list, a 1986 with Tange Prestige tubing and "new" Dura Ace. This bike rides sooo well!
IMG_5828
by Jim Harris, on Flickr
IMG_5828by Jim Harris, on Flickr
12-10-15, 08:02 PM
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Originally Posted by RobbieTunes
For my cousin's first organized ride, the Dairyland Dare. Also her first road bike and for her first triathlon.
12-10-15, 08:17 PM
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Originally Posted by RobbieTunes
Wow. I didn't know the Allez line included such beauties. Just wow. It would top about any list.
Originally Posted by plonz
^ Fabulous!
IMG_5248 by Jim Harris, on Flickr
12-11-15, 12:36 AM
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Cool. I distinctly remember when I saw my first Allez.
Murdoch's Bicycle in Goleta, California. Would have been 1981/1982. There was this blue frameset from a company with a strange name hanging on the wall right next to the purple Guerciotti frameset. My brothers and I were not excited by the Allez, but the Guerciotti had our hearts pounding!
Murdoch's Bicycle in Goleta, California. Would have been 1981/1982. There was this blue frameset from a company with a strange name hanging on the wall right next to the purple Guerciotti frameset. My brothers and I were not excited by the Allez, but the Guerciotti had our hearts pounding!
12-11-15, 07:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Frogbutter
Post up your Allez pics. I would love to see them. Old or new.
I can't be the only person who has an Allez fetish. Ever since the film "America Fliers", I have been hooked. I'm looking to add a 2015 or a 2016 Allez to my stable this year unless I find a deal I can't pass up on something else.
OK on with the Allez Porn.
1995 Allez Sport
1993 Allez PRO
1986 Allez SE Jim Merz Edition
I can't be the only person who has an Allez fetish. Ever since the film "America Fliers", I have been hooked. I'm looking to add a 2015 or a 2016 Allez to my stable this year unless I find a deal I can't pass up on something else.
OK on with the Allez Porn.
1995 Allez Sport
1993 Allez PRO
1986 Allez SE Jim Merz Edition
Originally Posted by Erzulis Boat
Cool. I distinctly remember when I saw my first Allez.
Murdoch's Bicycle in Goleta, California. Would have been 1981/1982. There was this blue frameset from a company with a strange name hanging on the wall right next to the purple Guerciotti frameset. My brothers and I were not excited by the Allez, but the Guerciotti had our hearts pounding!
Murdoch's Bicycle in Goleta, California. Would have been 1981/1982. There was this blue frameset from a company with a strange name hanging on the wall right next to the purple Guerciotti frameset. My brothers and I were not excited by the Allez, but the Guerciotti had our hearts pounding!
IMG_5734 by Jim Harris, on Flickr
Last edited by leaping_gnome; 12-11-15 at 08:11 AM.
12-11-15, 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by leaping_gnome
Frogbutter - that's a nice collection! Someday I'd like to have a 1990's Allez Pro in my collection also. I like the "Designed in California" decal with the USA background.
Erzulis Boat - I remember Murdoch's but I spent more time downtown at Hendrickson's in the loft!
IMG_5734 by Jim Harris, on Flickr
Erzulis Boat - I remember Murdoch's but I spent more time downtown at Hendrickson's in the loft!
IMG_5734 by Jim Harris, on Flickr
I got my Faggin at Hendrickson's!Sorry for the derail guys...................just remembering simpler times!
12-11-15, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize
What are the main differences between the sport and the pro? I was looking at a sport frameset, but couldn't find any info.
However I believe the biggest difference is the frame geometry and tubing. The Sport carries a kinda generic Cro-Mo decal and the PRO and the SE have the Specialized Racing Tubing decals.
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Originally Posted by iab
Why do you mock the cycling gods?
Your only hope is reciting 10 hail campagnolos to our lady of the duraace.
Your only hope is reciting 10 hail campagnolos to our lady of the duraace.
My Stable! --->https://s352.photobucket.com/user/Fro...ng/My%20Stable
12-15-15, 08:17 AM
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Originally Posted by RobbieTunes
For my cousin's first organized ride, the Dairyland Dare. Also her first road bike and for her first triathlon.
I'm really tempted to copy the yellow theme of your cousin's bike, never would have though of it myself but it works really well.
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How do the carbon tube frames ride? I'm thinking about picking up one, just not sure about the ride quality.
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Originally Posted by sloar
How do the carbon tube frames ride? I'm thinking about picking up one, just not sure about the ride quality.
I have to say, between the the steel and the carbon, the carbon was much smoother. We have poor roads around here, lots of heavy truck traffic courtesy of rock trucks and tanker trucks. The steering is twitchy, it'll track straight down the road but even the slightest steering input and it wants to immediately dart into that direction.
I think I really lucked out with the Allez, it just glides and it is silent. Take this with a grain of salt, one I'm very new to road bikes, and I'm still a bit starry eyed from actually getting this bike. I think they are very pretty.
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Originally Posted by snowbone59
12-23-19, 08:14 AM
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I love my '93 Allez Pro. Have seen only Jim's signature on an Allez NDS chain stay and w/o "Designed by", can't remember colors, bike in question could have been a respray, it was gorgeous.
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yes those hideous white tires will be gone and the proper superbe levers will be sourced.
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Ok I'll bite
93 Sport that was too small at 56 cm, so I refurbed and sold on this summer
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93 Sport that was too small at 56 cm, so I refurbed and sold on this summer
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