ozboz
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Saw this today , it’s on display at Sigma Sports , Kingston u Thames area .
Peice of British and Vuelta Cycling history ,
The tyres were flat and a bit grubby , a few marks on here and there , It’s on display does it matter ?Chain looks like a bit slack.
He only rode it because the sponsors made him. He'd have preferred a 1955 Freddie Grub with 10 speed friction shifting and cottered cranks.
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Saw this today , it’s on display at Sigma Sports , Kingston u Thames area .
Peice of British and Vuelta Cycling history ,
Good morning,
What's the bottom gear, 39x32?
My Raleigh Record Sprint's was 42x24.
Bye
Ian
Sorry Ozboz but this plonker pulling remark has a bit of a history on here .The tyres were flat and a bit grubby , a few marks on here and there , It’s on display does it matter ?
RE the appearance...one, it's a (rightly) used bike & being displayed as such, and two, that's nothing....the tradition with Paris-Roubaix winning bikes is to leave them as is, forever. EG Servais Knaven's 2001 Eddy Merckx, here photographed fourteen years later...
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Franco Ballerini's 1995 Colnago C40 is the same (now in the factory museum). Cycling Weekly did a shoot with one of Spartacus' winning Trek Domanes a few years back, and they were told to be careful to leave the muck where it was!
RE the appearance...one, it's a (rightly) used bike & being displayed as such, and two, that's nothing....the tradition with Paris-Roubaix winning bikes is to leave them as is, forever. EG Servais Knaven's 2001 Eddy Merckx, here photographed fourteen years later...
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Franco Ballerini's 1995 Colnago C40 is the same (now in the factory museum). Cycling Weekly did a shoot with one of Spartacus' winning Trek Domanes a few years back, and they were told to be careful to leave the muck where it was!