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Did you read this?
Yes; it let everybody know who was being sponsored by Baines in the days when even having the frame makers name on your bike made you ineligible for amateur competition. Same with Hetchins curly stays and Bates cantiflex tubes and diadrant forks.
It served a purpose. We can think whatever we want about the design, it wasn't made to look good but to differentiate them
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Did you read this?
Perhaps you need telling that my comment was unalloyed cynicism, not the complete story. Some of the frame makers who came up with these innovations had a genuine belief that they presented an advantage, some did it for pure marketing BS with pseudo-science to justify it, and some of it was as a high visibility distinguishing appearance so that people knew what sponsored riders were on. The truth is likely to a mix of all three factors in each case. Exactly the same thing still goes on, as a quick look at Pinarello 'Onda' style frames and forks will tell you, to name but one.
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Not sure this is SS (can't see gear cables) but clearly very wrong: http://i.imgur.com/bsCtd.jpg
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Perhaps you need telling that my comment was unalloyed cynicism, not the complete story. Some of the frame makers who came up with these innovations had a genuine belief that they presented an advantage, some did it for pure marketing BS with pseudo-science to justify it, and some of it was as a high visibility distinguishing appearance so that people knew what sponsored riders were on. The truth is likely to a mix of all three factors in each case. Exactly the same thing still goes on, as a quick look at Pinarello 'Onda' style frames and forks will tell you, to name but one.
Also, all GT Frames, Cannondale "Lefty" forks, Specialized's "Damping Zerts" and chainstays on a btwin triban?
Can't imagine any of those "innovations" do anything other than weaken or needlessly add weight to a frame.
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This is a Richard Sachs team time trial bicycle. I am told it is only one of 5 that were built in the 80s for a team time trial race. The front wheel is 24" and the rear is a 650c. The frame is a mix of aero tubing and standard road tubes. The bicycle is in the condition I bought it and I have only changed out the handlebars to make it more comfortable for me to ride. As far as I know the paint and decals are original
from here
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Probably a triathlon bike. An ulgy one.
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anytime I hear about pinemartins I think of this:
YouTube - Midfield General featuring Noel Fielding "Midfielding"
nice i aint listened to this in time made me smile cheers wibble
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Even though I normally love archaic, unnecessary or unusual engineer, Flying Gate's are just all over the place, to many mismatched angles to look good.
"The word 'gate' may well have been adopted because it opened up a new concept on design at that time" - Or because they look like a badly thrown together gate.
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Flying Gates...are never win.
Martin Pyne, the [1981] national 25 mile champion in full flight on his Breckland Model Flying Gate
via http://hubpages.com/hub/Touring-Bicycle-How-Flying-Gate-Hand-Built-Bicycles-Are-Made
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Martin Pyne, the [1981] national 25 mile champion in full flight on his Breckland Model Flying Gate
via http://hubpages.com/hub/Touring-Bicycle-How-Flying-Gate-Hand-Built-Bicycles-Are-Made
just think how fast he'd have been on a proper bike without all the useless heavy extra tubing.
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Haha they are full of shit. The only thing that can be an advantage in certain situations is the short wheelbase, which can also be achieved with a curved seattube that doesn't make the bike look like a pile of leftover tubes that accidentaly got stuck together in a way that remotely resembles a bicycle frame.