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That was 1985. Mike Burrows made the first version of his Windcheetah that year. In his autobiography he claims it was the first monocoque frame https://www.podiumcafe.com/book-corner/2017/6/13/15791878/from-bicycle-to-superbike-by-tony-hadland-and-mike-burrows
I wonder whether he really beat Battaglin to it? It must have been nip and tuck.
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Damn, that thing was pretty damn rad for its time, even without the weird wheel and fork.
Look at the parts on it! Toeclips, and not even a slant parallelogram RD! How does it get to be carbon?!
I thought the only carbon bikes in those days are plain tubes bonded to ally lugs.