WTF????

davelakers
davelakers Posts: 762
edited May 2008 in Workshop
wierd ebay bike

What is that?

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  • Slow Downcp
    Slow Downcp Posts: 3,041
    Time Trial bike from the mid-late 80's - it was perceived that the head down position gave aerodynamic advantages.
    Carlsberg don't make cycle clothing, but if they did it would probably still not be as good as Assos
  • davelakers
    davelakers Posts: 762
    Slow Downcp wrote:
    Time Trial bike from the mid-late 80's - it was perceived that the head down position gave aerodynamic advantages.

    Looks bloody painful.................
  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    Before the advent of tri-bars, 'funny bikes' for serious TTs were the norm - based on Francesco Moser's hour record bike, which had something like a 40" rear wheel. When tri-bars arrived, you hade a few 'mongrels' like this, but they soon fell out of favour - particularly when the UCI decreed that all race bikes are to have 2 equally sized wheels.
    Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..
  • PhilofCas
    PhilofCas Posts: 1,153
    davelakers wrote:
    wierd ebay bike

    What is that?

    a bag of sh*te ?
  • blorg
    blorg Posts: 1,169
    These were all the rage at the highest level after Moser's hour record (subsequently retrospecitvely downgraded by the UCI.) Lots of other crazy stuff went on in bike design until as Monty says, the party poopers at UCI stamped it out with the arbitrary requirement that a bike had to have wheels of the same size. Sosenka, who is 6ft 6, was able to get a similar sort of position on a UCI-legal bike with an low front end and extremely extended saddle position.

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