Bike porn

Stinks of Klein.

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/going-full-retro.html

https://www.pedalroom.com/bike/vitus-zx1-17575

This is a corima, isn’t it?

Thanks, @Patfatenough, I'd almost forgotten this hideous kind of bikes existed. It's even worse than Corima.

Oh, no, it IS a Corima!

VITUS ZX1. Revolutionary bikes for their time with their monocoque design. Remember these are from around 1992 as a frame of reference.

It's even worse than Corima.

Corima wheels and bars on a ZX1, for the full pre-Lugano space bike effect. For my money, with a more conventional build the ZX1 is less aesthetically challenged than a Corima Puma

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Needs reposting. If only for...

toshop ?

Lolz.

The wheels were cool. I remember lots of our Belgian cyclocrossers rode on them.

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would

I think it was Saronni who set the trend in the early 80s

I saw that bike at l'eroica and was a bit puzzled, too. As @davidual rightfully points out, the EM logo on the seatstay was only used on bikes built in the merckx factory. Afaik, the logo was only used from 1981 on. The first series of the EM professional had the merckx signature on the seatstay caps. So a molteni bike from 1981 wouldn't make any sense since the team existed till 1976. Another odd thing about the frame is the shape of the headtube lugs since they are more rectangular than both the long lugs on 1980/81 Merckx bikes and the later shorter lugs.

http://www.veloveritas.co.uk/2016/03/25/roy-schuiten-mar16/

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14504828/

https://www.pedalroom.com/bike/92-lotto-mbk-team-frame-johan-museeuw-34388
1992 Team Lotto MBK team frame, used by Johan Museeuw during the season. Build by MAX tubing, internal cable routing and eyelid for race number.

'Eyelid', that's what those tabs for numbers are called? Cool.

Thought it was eyelet.

That would make more sense, maybe autocorrect doing it's job.

'Build by' would suggest English isn't the owner's native language.

The guy who owns it is looking to trade it for a (genuine) 60's, 70's General Classement jersey from Tour, Giro or Vuelta.

https://www.2dehands.be/fietsen/fietsen/classics/museeuw-mbk-lotto-1992-max-464177635.html

Deadly frame.