Lo Pros, Represent

Gotta love a 24" front. And the fork/headtube angle makes it seem to dive even harder.

Welp

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Taken at Hors Categorie cafe in Girona

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Bertoni Crono Olympiad

Everything on that bike looks new, except for the bottle.

Glorious.

Oof that Bertoni is pure porn.

Is there any tanwall 650c tyres anywhere on planet earth?

Preferably in 25c, but 23c if that's all there is. Won't go narrower.

My googling for UK based stuff doesn't find any, the only 650c tyres I can find are 23c and in black, Rubino's and Gatorskns, which is pretty shit, like fitting a race horse with clogs. And ebay not doing any better.

Anyone know any European stockists or any 650c owners have a stash of tanwalls I can bribe out of your clutches?

Better switch to tubular! I remember looking for one, but only found this old stock in the local classifieds (or was it defietsenmaker.nl?). It was very much dried out so I didn't trust it and went for a new (black) tyre.

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Haha bit of a spendy way to get tanwalls, plus added inconvenience, and with a 700 rear means carrying round 2 different size spare tubulars, sounds an epic ball ache.

And there was me thinking 650c clincher was making lo pro's borderline practical :)

Yeah there's none left anywhere so looks like i'll have to settle for black... determined to do better than gatorskins and rubino's tho.

I'm grieving. My Vittoria 650c is starting to crack. No way am I sticking a black tyre on a Shamal 650.

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I feel your pain, as I have the same wheels, but with no tanwalls mine are destined to look shitter. How can we befriend and bribe some Vittoria staff to stay after hours and do us a sneaky run of 25c 650c's.?

Otherwise, are beige permanent markers a thing so we colour in our own? :)

Edit, yes of course they're a thing, chose your shade...

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are beige permanent markers a thing

Not going to turn black rubber beige though

determined to do better than gatorskins and rubino's tho.

https://www.schwalbe.com/en/Schwalbe-One-11653980

Ah cool thanks that's another option, only in black and 23c tho from what I can see in 650c.

I managed to get some black conti gp4000's which in my experience of regular 700c ones inflated fatter than quoted, so think that's still my best bet to get close to 25c.

How can we befriend and bribe some Vittoria staff to stay after hours and do us a sneaky run of 25c 650c

Aren't they all made in the far east now? Probably stand more chance with Veloflex or FMB

Yes Thailand I think.

Wonder what the minimum order is to persuade one of them to do a run of gumwall 650c's....650c'ers assemble!

I did read there was a company in USA that decided to do a run of 28c 650c tyres a number of years ago, the Terry Tellus..got no idea if they were any good but shows it can/could be done.

Fashionably late to the lo pro party, I just finished this ex team steel Pinarello Mercatone uno from about 93/94/95.

Regular practical Shamal clinchers for everyday use, and the Ghibli tub disc for pretending to be Lauren Fignon or Cippolini....ps I think this is from the same era as the famous pic of Cippolini smoking during/before/after a race.

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Nice combo of black and yellow and silver. Works with blackwalls as well as any other.

Impressive bike, once again!

Thanks, the colour matching didn't go quite as well with the kit.

Look at this shit show, don't think my OCD will permit me to wear this mismatched garb unless heavily sedated.

50 shades of yellow, like a collection of pro peloton urine samples.

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Yes!