blamester

Off the clock kooky.
That's gotta be hard to shift gear. There was no where else to put the shifters?

crank_addict

Traditional TT coming back and where it was first popularized, in the UK. Restrictions including aero bars, etc..

Made me think of having a vintage class TT series with no restrictions, allow anything though reward with a handicap points / time, such as not using aero bars, depth of wheel rims, decade or era of bike, etc..

https://www-cyclingweekly-com.cdn.am...-trials-448766

From the above Cycling Weekly article:
The aero restrictions for entering the road bike-only time trials may differ between events, but the general rules include no aerobars, clip-on bars or aero extensions, hands must be on the handlebars at all times (no resting forearms on the bars), wheels must have 12 speaks each with a maximum rim depth of 90mm, helmets must have no visor and must not cover the rider’s ears (no TT helmets).

martl

Can I bring this? It's vintage...

blamester

Maybe this week I might get some.
I gotta ask the owner first.

Bibi001

what is this???

T-Mar

You forgot "mangled". Look at that non-drive side chain stay. Not nice.

Last ride 76 

Thx for encouragement. Hats' off to you too, for this tread, and keeping it going. It's always good for a browse. I posted my Cavalera funny bike early in the thread. I have a couple of other "go fasts" to post as I can.


Cost is hard to quantify, but I want to answer to the best of my ability, and explain why it's tricky. Selling, if parted out, I would hope 1k, plus the cockpit.

I use $700 as a rough estimate of "cost" (including the cockpit). But, because like many BF members, I trade back and forth, swapping bits and pieces constantly, the actual $ spent on build is significantly less, or I couldn't afford to keep it, though like many BF members, factoring time at $15/hr, I shudder to think of the"economic opportunity cost". For me at least, even cash costs are hard to determine.

For example, I bought a full DA Kestrel 200Sci bike (local pickup only) in 2015, 60 mi away for $170. It came with the Litespeed Ti seatpost and Flite Ti saddle, now on the Litespeed TT bike. I sold the Kestrel's wheels for $100, pedals with toeclips for $50 or $60, and still have the Kestrel as my "rain" bike. A rare coup obviously, or I could make a living doing this, but how should I apportion the post and saddle "cost" to the Litepeed TT bike? The Blade frame was an eBay score from my LBS, again no shipping, around $230.

Sorry, if that's TMI...

Cheers, Eric

T-Mar

FWIW, the graphics are 1984-1986 but the picture was taken later. It's hard to make a positive identification on the pedals but they are not the first generation Look PP65 that came out in 1984. They don't even appear to be the 2nd generation PP75 that came out in 1987. They look more like the 1988 Look PP76 Carbon pedals. The shoes are Look L'Image which became available in 1987. Seems strange to have DiAa-Compe Aero Gran Compe brakeset on a mid-1980s Peugeot.

T-Mar

I just noticed a couple of other things, The cranksaet appears to be Campagnolo C-Record. The BB shell appears to be noticeably offset with more protrusion on the drive side. I've seen this done on custom TT frames to optimize the chain angle of a single large chainring with the more frequently used small cogs.

d_dutchison

Not so much a picture of my favorite TT bike as it's my favorite picture of a TT bike.

Greg Curnoe was a Canadian artist, musician, and cyclist who made paintings of several of his bikes. This Mariposa was made at Bicycle Sport in Toronto. Owned by "Mike and Mike" (Barry and Brown). The two Englishmen built custom frames (Randounerus being their special expertise) and sold an eclectic selection of higher end British bikes.

As to this particular bike, those were pretty straight fork blades for a road bike of the 70's. Radial spokes on the Front for better aero - same rationalization for the "Fastback" seat-stay treatment. No front shifter braze-on (won't be needing it), no tape on the tops of the bars (ditto), corn-cob freewheel and T.A. cranks because they're lighter than Campag.. Track pedals because they're lighter than road. While the colours are rather fanciful (each spoke is a different one for instance) I seem to remember that the orange tubs were a real thing in the 70's. Silk cased, weighing next to nothing, and more expensive than most anyone else's whole bike. I'd lay odds on the Rim's being Fiamme Ergal's - same price to weight ratio as the tires, why not?

The bike was painted life-sized on a transparent plexiglass sheet.

d_dutchison

Thanks VintageTTfan, and I just want to say to say that this has been one of the most enjoyable threads to read through.

Greg was an Artist first, so the colours are often purely imaginary (every spoke nipple and every chain link is also a unique colour). In another painting the freewheel is bright green, in another the background colour changes between groups of spokes. Reflected highlights are also often different colours on different parts of the bike - yet the technical drawing is perfect. In reality I suspect the spokes were silver, and the saddle plain black.

Pop Art in the 60's and 70's was super bold (and fun) and plastics were a popular material. A life-sized Plexiglass semi-psychedelic panel would have fit right in with the times - I remember seeing the original painting in the Isaacs Gallery in Toronto when I was a kid

As to the tires, bright orange ones stand out, and I vaguely remember seeing them on a another customers bike in a shop when I was a kid. I remember bring told they were silk cased, for track, and very expensive - I'm guessing Clement because silks were what they did, and the Seta's were out of this world expensive. From Velobase, two candidates stand out: the Clement Seta Extra weighing in at 125 grams. (125!), or if that's too heavy, the Clement Record Seta Extra at 105 grams.

Shrevvy 

The bike looks like it is moving in the shot even as it stands still.

malcala622

Still in early stages of the build but heres my 88 Krono



Bonus image 88 Krono with 88 Giro

malcala622

VintageTTfan. The Bianchi stand is available for purchase on the site. ($55) I was fortunate to get this one from the Bicycle Stand in Long Beach a few months back for $40.

P!N20

https://www.bicycling.com/news/a2001...anchi-celeste/

T-Mar

Yes, artistic license, the only justifiable rationale for a non-drive side depiction. His first bicycle work showed the drive side and this was his second. He did seem to continue to alternate on his subsequent works, so it's appears to have been intentional.

P!N20

Just too much time on my hands.

Here’s a good article about getting the ‘correct’ celeste which has always been a moving target: https://veloaficionado.com/blog/when...old-dog-part-4

d_dutchison

I love Bianchi's from this era. The integral head set, skip-tooth chain ring, and those blue-filled indents in the frame all add up to make this bike stand out

T-Mar

"Massed start time trial' - cycling's oxymoron.

T-Mar

These were popular in the early 1990s. Soon after the aero bars came out, triathletes discovered that by moving the saddle as far forward as possible, you could maintain the angle between the torso and thigh, while lowering the torso for a more aerodynamic position. This led to a plethora of dedicated triathlon bicycles with ultra-steep seat angles, to allow the saddle to be moved even farther forward. Of course, not everyone could afford a state-of-the -art triathlon frame, so component manufacturers started offering seat posts with a forward curve and/or a saddle cradle positioned in front of the post. This allowed a typical road bicycle to achieve an extra steep effective seat angle for the cost of a new seat post. There were several on the market but the most popular was probably the Profile Aero SP.

malcala622

Im pretty this is the instagram of The Bicycle Stand owner

https://www.instagram.com/vintage.space/?hl=en

Kilroy1988 

Of all of the time trial bikes I've ever seen, this is the one I wish I had... An early 1950s Claud Butler Olympic Sprint, from a time and place when many time trialists had to ride their bikes back home after the events. I saw it sell twice on Ebay UK a couple of years ago when I could not afford it... Alas!

-Gregory

m_sasso

There is that saddle again, someone with good eyes and imagination read the name, please?







And a few special frames form a shop I was unaware of until recently.

malcala622

m_sasso VintageTTfan

Selle Italia Prairie saddle

malcala622

I read somewhere the back part was for more tooshie support when climbing in the saddle