Bike porn

Dunno y but that does nothing for me. <<<< cad monkey

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I feel like there wasn't anyone in the 70s who saw all that drillium and panto going on, who decided to make parts so light that nobody would dare to go the hack on them...

Oh wait, Ofmega. I guess we don't see it much because it's all broken by now?

A lot of that drilling was at the cost of durability. It didn’t matter because bikes were a lot cheaper in relative terms in those days. My first real race bike was a Gios Torino I got from a guy who got a new bike every year.

We visited the old Colnago factory in the mid 70s and they had a brazing carousel with stations for each operation…poor ventilation and stinky fumes. No wonder a lot of them got cancer. (Pegoretti and Pellizoli for example)
Colnago did a lot of beautiful panto work. I regret not getting one, they offered to panto my name on a Colnago stem for $10! You sometimes see those Cinelli stems on Ebay with a clover on the front and five diamonds on top with owner’s names on them.

bikes were a lot cheaper in relative terms in those days.

Seems unlikely, and it would be an aberration from the long term trend (1890-2020) of bikes getting steadily more affordable

Interesting colour for a porn bike...

What's that little dingus on the rear shift lever?

Portacatena lever.
Around 1979 Campagnolo designed a system to speed up wheel changes. Pressing that dingus let rear derailleur shift past the smallest cog and onto a crescent shaped chain rest bolted to the inside of the dropout.
Many frames can be dated by looking for the two mounting holes on the dropout.
Portacatena never gained much use and disappeared by the early 1980s.

Huh, nice idea.

they offered to panto my name on a Colnago stem for $10!

That’s roughly £80 in today’s money though.

Still present on my 1982 Gios, it came without the portacatena from new and I never felt the need to find one.

Cadex prototype

https://www.triathlete.com/gallery/spy-shots-of-kristian-blummenfelts-new-prototype-cadex-tri-bike/
https://www.bikeradar.com/news/kristian-blummenfelt-cadex-triathlon-bike/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=BRR&utm_campaign=Newsletter%2006%2F05_1798169_BikeRadar_Newsletters_7822350&image=1&type=gallery&gallery=1&embedded_slideshow=1
https://cyclingtips.com/2022/05/tt-bikes-sans-uci-rules-faster-or-fashion/

I want. Would be a funky touring bike. Or a city bike. It's a boris bike on steroids.

Cadex prototype

Had to check which thread I was in, hard to believe Giant have taken 30 years to make MCR 2.0 even uglier than the OG

#overachieve

That is a form of art. Brilliant!

for sale here https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195035027787

Serotta is super clean for a 40 year old bike.
Plus it has Portacatena dropouts!
This must be one of the oldest Serottas around. I think he started in the early 70s.

Is nudity allowed in bike porn?