Nope. That is a "GL" on the headtube for "Greg LeMond Bicycles". It's the older emblem...

and Greg lemond fat is probably still smaller than a lot of us on this board. and could undoubtedly still kick most of our asses too.

Some LeMond ti bikes were built by TST.

someone posted a recent pic of him riding his bike a few months ago, and he was looking a little porky

Here's one of him in 2003.

http://www.valleybicycle.com/images/greg_lemond_a.jpg

He has a degenerative muscle disease.

++ I'm almost certain he rode Gitane bikes early in his career with the Renault team if not with La Vie Claire.

Gitane, LOOK, Bottechia and LeMond.

Yeah, I see he left the team that supplied Gitanes after he won the World Championship in 1983. That leaves about the last 10 years of his career riding other bikes.

Here's something odd: Lemond used Mavic components when he won the '89 TdF. I think that was the only time Mavic bits were on a winning bike, other then wheels.

yeah, Mavic everywhere!

http://vmartin.bigpondhosting.com/photos/lemond_one.jpg

You will hear and see a lot of stuff but without Greg actually saying what he rode it's difficult to tell.

A mechanic that worked in Europe at the time told me that the steel bikes that Greg rode were all Della Santas from Rolland's shop in Reno, NV. You can still get Roland to build you a custom for a pretty reasonable price. http://www.dellasanta.com/

The Gitane and Bottechia steel bikes were said to be rebadged Della Santas but I had an ADR Bottecchia and it was EASILY a good enough bike to have been ridden by LeMond. Greg DOES have extremely long femurs and hence needed custom bikes so the Della Santa story is probably accurate. Bettecchia DID build Greg's really fancy TT bike for the '90 Tour de France. http://www.bottecchia.com/default.asp

For climbing LeMond was always experimenting. Many of the Gitanes he rode on climbs were Vituses that were bought by Gitane who sold them all over the world as Gitanes.

Greg also rode TVT's which looked something like a Vitus but had carbon tubed with external lugs. These bikes were too soft for anything but climbing and they weren't properly insulated in the lugs and would soon develop electrolysis white spots around the lugs signalling imminent failure at these points. NEVER buy a TVT that doesn't look absolutely new and never ride one in the rain or get any water on the lugs.

Finally he settled on Calfee bikes who are still in business in La Selva Beach, CA http://www.calfeedesign.com/

Craig Calfee is an OUTSTANDING bicycle producer so don't let a bamboo bicycle throw you off. The fact is that they're stronger for their weight than just about anything else except carbon fiber.