Conveniently I saw one in person at my work locked outside. Steel Reynolds 853 yellow (hot) beautiful headtube.I lifted it up and was suprisigly very light.
LOved it

Never touch someone elses bike. ;)

crap I do it all the time.I can't help it :)
I did notice head being 1-1/8 which I prefer.

I have 2000 Trek which I converted to SS and love this frame.Little heavy but rides like steel and is very stiff.
Only wished head was not 1" otherwise I have extra carbon fork I could of install.
I like steel bikes with modern 1-1/8 head
http://www.bikepedia.com/Images/imag...e.jpg&f=Photos

There are many former great bike brands that have withered away. It takes more than former glory to run a successful business. I suspect Greg doesn't have the energy or desire at his age to do what it takes to rebuild a successful bike business. Success is 10% inspiration 90% perspiration...

OR you can hire someone to do the perspiring. :lol:

Here's a couple of pics from my porn library.

A common color scheme. Nicely done despite that foot locker under the seat.
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/556/zurich01.jpg

Not sure what model this is, but I like the color scheme.
http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/5714/lemondblack.jpg

Not my bikes, however.

Can you photo shop in a different spoke lacing? The paired deal makes my eyes hurt.

This reminds me of a TV commercial that I saw a few months back. Dude with Russian accent sitting on a chair with electrodes...in the back ground, big dude doing some heavy lifting fitted with electrodes. As the big dude is lifting weights, the other guy's mucles were expanding and contracting. Funny commercial...anyway...

Croix de Fer (Cross of Steel).

Well I don't think there are many successful companies built on a good idea where the founder didn't do any heavy lifting. Finding a niche to differentiate yourself in the bike building industry is becoming more and more difficult. Cervelo did well because the founders were engineers and had some good ideas and knew how to manage a company. I don't think Lemond has demonstrated that capability.

If anyone want to tell Greg that you want to see more bikes:

http://greglemond.com/survey-test/

my first road bike was an 03 Lemond Nevada City! Got it back in fall 09 and rode the crap out of it until the frame cracked earlier this year. :(
I'd like another one of these days. Maybe something with 853 this time. :D

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6205/6...1e38ee40_z.jpg

Pics of my LeMond
 

Here's some shots of my Zurich. The first is how it looked when I got it. The second is after a saddle and tire upgrade. It now has my Williams System 30 wheels, a white Fizik Aliante, and white bar tape.

I noticed that Billy D did some cleaning up. Any more off topic posts and the thread will be moved or deleted. Let's keep it about the bikes.

Just one sorehead who didn't get the message. I got it, thanks.

You calling me a sorehead? I'm hurt. :(

Back in the day I rode for a junior team that used "LeMond" bikes, which were actually made by Roland Della Santa, using Greg's ideas about geometry. I was used to American style crit bikes with very upright angles and stiff tubing. The LeMonds showed me how bad those bikes actually were, and convinced me that relaxed Euro-style bikes were much better for just about any kind of racing. And with the red, white and blue fade paint jobs, they were hardly boring to look at.

Later LeMonds were, I guess, out-of-the-same-mold plastic frames that can be differentiated from other brands only by the decals. I suppose those decals make the difference between boring and not boring for a certain type of cyclist. Why anyone should care about the opinions of that type of cyclist is a bit of a mystery to me.

:popcorn

Ill refrain from posting what I REALLY wanted to say, however, I will ask, if Trek did, would there be huge demand for such a thing? AFAICT, I would imagine, if Lemond did decide to start building/selling bikes again, theres obviously still an interest in them, theyd probably do well, Imo?

There seems to be more cyclists in America than pro cycling fans. They aren't concerned with Armstrong's rep. And the typical roadie would rather ride something that looks like this:

http://www.highsnobiety.com/news/wp-...ry-mcgee-1.jpg

than this:

http://www.evanscycles.com/product_i...-road-bike.jpg

So no matter what the politics are an Armstrong Trek would outsell a Lemond many times over.

Most of the AF base gyms I've visited have Lemond spin cycles.

What a nonsense post. Hey let's compare a carbon Trek to a steel SS Lemond, in the context of a future production bike.

BECAUSE THAT IS TOTALLY A VALID COMPARISON. DUR.

Statistically speaking the typical roadie would rather ride something other than trek and lemond combined. Since we live in a universe that isn't particularly binary in this regard.

Either way the Lemond owns that trek. If not on the podium, it does in regards to pride. Besides the fact is a single speed. Lol

I shouldn't have picked a SS. But past that, Lemonds have mostly been steel framed bikes and I would guess if they went forward again they still make steel frames and/or more traditional designs/cosmetics. Unless Lemonds were picked up by another large company they would need some angle to compete and why not go to what your known for. Most (all?) of the pics in this thread of Lemonds are of steel frames with retro/classic paint jobs.

I'm also guessing that any future Armstrong/Treks would be on the cutting edge technology wise and look like it. One more guess is that is why Trek took on the Lemond line in the first place was to have a foil to their other products. If it had proved to be a better over all seller (and profit maker) I think they would have kept something like it around instead of branding some road bikes as Fischers that aren't far off their current Trek offerings.