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screenman said:
I did not phrase that well did I, I should have gone more along the lines of sporting cyclist and cyclist. Trouble is when you have a passion for cycling like I do it is hard to realise not everybody is the same.

Please accept my apologies if you can.
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Accepted. It's rare on a forum like this for people to step back as you have. :thumbsup:
 
dellzeqq

dellzeqq

pre-talced and mighty
Location
SW2
And for those serious cyclists.......the maestro finishing the '78 Paris-Roubaix with the same devotion to aerodynamics that got him the hour record. Without the assistance of a helicopter

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2Z61UVMWio

there's a wonderful, wonderful moment in 'A Sunday in Hell', recorded in '76 when he just takes off, but his shoulders and hip are perfectly still. Glorious to watch.
 
GrumpyGregry

GrumpyGregry

Here for rides.
screenman said:
I really hope you guys are just kidding, surely you must know all the history behind the bike and rider. If not you should certainly be ashamed to call yourselves cyclist.
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yep, the rider certainly had 'history' all right. Some might even say 'form'. Very friendly with certain Italian doctors iirc.
 
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Theseus

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Location
Edinburgh
screenman said:
I really hope you guys are just kidding, surely you must know all the history behind the bike and rider. If not you should certainly be ashamed to call yourselves cyclist.
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WTF!!! Why shouldn't I consider myself a cyclist just because I don't know of some geezer and his funny-bike.

Why couldn't have got the same gear inch using a larger chainring and/or smaller sprocket.
 
wheres_my_beard

wheres_my_beard

Über Member
Location
Norwich
How tall was Moser? If that back wheel is 100cm and his seat is pretty much in line with the top, he must have had a hell of an inside leg measurement to reach the pedals at their lowest point.
 
vernon

vernon

Harder than Ronnie Pickering
Location
Meanwood, Leeds
screenman said:
No but that bike and rider are a bit special and worthy or more than flippant remarks. I tend to forget on this forum we have cyclist and bicycle owners/riders, big difference.
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The bike is as special as I want it to be. As it happens I think it looks rather silly.

I suppose you see yourself as a proper cyclist.

This reply was composed on a special, to me, computer.
 
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Bicycle

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screenman said:
Vernon the bike was built to do a job, not I would imagine for its artistic merits.
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Quite so, quite so. I'm not sure who the chap's framebuilder was, but I'm not sure he's got the radius of the seat-tube curve quite right. The distance between tube and tyre is not constant; and judging by the angle of the dropouts and position of the wheelnuts, the discrepancy has nothing to do with chain adjustment.

I'm not sure about the colours either. If this bike had been built for its artistic merits, it would have been straight in the skip.

If it isn't going in the skip, they might want to see to that chain. It's hard to tell at this distance, but isn't it just a little slack?
 
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