Bike porn

fat chance team spec Campagnolo mtb gruppo ! merci mon frere ! x

bit like the upset the post of the super mtb I put up which caused such upset to the vocal albeit non posters , but only ultimately collectable to those who intrinsically value it

Well, you could still use that saddle in anger.

https://raleigh-sb4059.com/2016/11/09/sb6398-restore-part-five-sbdu-ilkeston-ti-raleigh-1984-reynolds-753r-campagnolo-super-record-50th-anniversary-group/

Yes, the best colourway!

https://www.youtube.com/v/XBEyCr5AoIs

yes , on a rare mtb just to get you at it

re fat chance
this is the team 'yo eddy' with campag team spec , i posted before ,

sure i saw one listsed by pro's closet a while back for 5k dorrah,(which arguably raised the bar for vintage mtbs x campag spec) the above was listed at 2k in 2011
not sure why fat chance went campy when they had the Murican cnc stuff

Isn't forged much stronger than CNC?

Not sure if that was considered , campagnolo MTb components were not sold for long , late 80's to mid 90's that era xtr put all other contenders on their back

I was thinking of cranks and such from US makers who had discovered the magic of cnc like kooka, cook, grafton et al.
I knew a guy who had a kooka crank that creaked constantly until it settled into the form it was always meant to take (at least three pieces).

They liked to anodise as well those same cnc fans

Isn't forged much stronger than CNC?

It's a marginal gain which can be swamped by design or material selection. Most of the US CNC boutique makers which sprung up in the early 90s were using 7075 as that's what they had been used to from their aerospace roots. That immediately gave them about 50% extra strength to play with compared with the 6000 series alloys used for most forged bicycle components. Of course, many of them promptly threw that away by using too little material poorly distributed, and some of that can be laid at the door of the limits of their manufacturing process.

Paul has come back down to fixie skiddies / hipsterism arguably
Think I got 5 Campagnolo MTB gruppi now
Mombat says Scapin Team used it, missed a corker the other day that was mint and cheap

interesting, thanks

^ clean

Saarf are you posting stuff in here that you believe to be collectible, or based on its aesthetic merit? If the former then that explains a lot of the issues you have in this thread, and might prompt you to consider what you post in future, given that this is not the "bikes Saarf consider to be collectible and bikes that look nice, not always (indeed, seldom) at the same time".

That Colnago is unreal... don't recognise the tubs, hope they're not Rallys.

...might prompt you to consider...

If you don't share @saarf 's obsession with vintage Italian steel, it might prompt you to consider ignoring him, since you wouldn't lose much by also missing his other contributions. Otherwise, just accept that some people get a tingle from different things, and there's room in a general pr0n thread for both Selen and Stoya.

I don't like the ignore function, you take away peoples responsibility to govern themselves in a way, and if Saarf could stop reflexively posting every single Colnago he finds that rings his highly specialised bell then the bike porn thread would go from being 85% boring Colnago and 5% interesting bike with say 10% readers and wives and horrifying mistake to what it used to be- namely, interesting.

if Saarf could stop reflexively posting every single Colnago he finds

If you posted one interesting bike for every Colnago @saarf posts, the thread would never be more than 50% of anything :)

I'd rather build bikes than post pictures of them, although that said I do like to see what others have done- hence reading this thread.