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• #17102
Have some respect Ed!
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• #17103
I hate to be a nagger.
Racist.
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• #17104
Ricist.
Fixed, through the magic of chiasmus
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• #17105
Or even that threaded fork kingcutter got, that's just perfect for a lugless steel frame.
yeah true, being lugless it matches the frame perfectly.
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• #17106
***Fausto Coppi's 1952 Bike
http://www.rouleur.cc/recent-features/238-coppibike
"In the 1950s racing bikes were made almost entirely of steel. Aluminium was still rare and exotic, just as carbon became at the beginning of the 1990s. Nowadays at the Giro almost all the bicycles are made entirely of carbon, with the chain being pretty much the only steel item on the bike. That's not to say that steel bikes weren't pushing innovation, as you can see by Fausto Coppi's 1952 race bike, there are a few things that designers and bike builders still have in use today – and some ideas they 'pinched' too. Last year Rouleur took a trip to the Bianchi factory (see issue ten of Rouleur). The headquarters is based just outside of Milan in Treviglio. It was a busman's holiday, make no mistake, but was still a wonderful learning experience. Allowed to wander through the factory we found countless treasures, old chroming tanks, celeste coloured spray booths and welding bays – through to the modern bike building workshop where mechanics busily assembled the latest range of bikes, with the same care and attention that Bianchi have always paid to building fine racing bikes.
We spent hours nudging and nosing around the prototype workshop, which was full of ancient and modern delights, the past decades of cycling technology all spread out like a cycle jumble. Bianchi are proud of their racing pedigree and so they have kept and preserved many of the race winning historical bikes, on display are those that once belonged to Felice Gimondi, Gianni Bugno and Marco Pantani among many others (more pictures of these will follow at some point).
*Amongst all these valuable, priceless bikes there was one that stood out as a gem. This is Fausto Coppi's 1952 World Championship winning Bianchi Specialissima complete with insulated bottle covers, Campagnolo derailleurs, Ambrosio forged aluminium stem and Universal brakes. The frame was a huge advance on the bikes of the time, with chrome lugs and an early integrated style headset (who said that there are new ideas in frame building?). *
So, here are some photographs of the most famous Celeste coloured bike of all time..."simply amazing!
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• #17107
dunno if it has been posted... just found it.
E (fucking) P I C
YouTube - Best Tour de France footage ever filmed?
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• #17108
dunno if it has been posted... just found it.
E (fucking) P I C
YouTube - Best Tour de France footage ever filmed?
I had the full 10 min HD version of that a while back. Must have deleted it and can't find it anywhere on the net!
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• #17109
can someone tell me the soundtrack list to this please ?
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• #17110
I think this bike is really beautiful, and I particularly like the cover on the top tube. I am just slightly unsure what this kind of thing is called and where I could find one in red...or maybe this is just handlebar tape..i am quite unsure...
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• #17111
...or maybe this is just handlebar tape..
Definitely bar tape.
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• #17112
I think this bike is really beautiful, and I particularly like the cover on the top tube. I am just slightly unsure what this kind of thing is called and where I could find one in red...or maybe this is just handlebar tape..i am quite unsure...
http://fixedgeargallery.com/2009/june/10/Moliemoliemolie.htmI honestly can't see anything I like in that bike. Monstrosity.
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• #17113
I think this bike is really beautiful, and I particularly like the cover on the top tube. I am just slightly unsure what this kind of thing is called and where I could find one in red...or maybe this is just handlebar tape..i am quite unsure...
http://fixedgeargallery.com/2009/june/10/Moliemoliemolie.htmWow that's really just a piece of posh wank.
Totally not in a state to ride, so someone's spent along time touching it inappropriately... but not riding it.
It's even photographed on a bed, surrounded by towels and lube!
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• #17114
I think this bike is really beautiful, and I particularly like the cover on the top tube. I am just slightly unsure what this kind of thing is called and where I could find one in red...or maybe this is just handlebar tape..i am quite unsure...
http://fixedgeargallery.com/2009/june/10/Moliemoliemolie.htmit's poo.
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• #17115
it looks all expensive and posh and stuff, but has chopped & flopped bullhorns? :-S
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• #17116
I think this bike is really beautiful, and I particularly like the cover on the top tube. I am just slightly unsure what this kind of thing is called and where I could find one in red...or maybe this is just handlebar tape..i am quite unsure...
http://fixedgeargallery.com/2009/june/10/Moliemoliemolie.htmjes, does the owner sleeps with the bike? someone needs to get dating!! appart from that, what a nice seat post
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• #17117
can someone tell me the soundtrack list to this please ?
preety please
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• #17118
OK here's for all you late night tweeeeeekers that cant give that w= rench a break and just go to sleep . only if my girl knew '. anyways i t= hink she would understand ( i hope ) !
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• #17119
here's my own (I know generally you're not supposed to post your own but i figure with this bike it's an exception...)
You figured wrong. That's why readers' wives are deprecated; you have a tremendously over-inflated idea of how hot your bike is.
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• #17120
it is nice but NOTHING is an exception. Put it in the names and faces and if it's considered porn someone will probably put it in here ;)
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• #17121
Tut Tut TuT! No one is exempt!
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• #17123
jealousy is hard to cope with
something tells me he's not jealous?
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• #17124
Nothing to do with jealously, it's a nice bike but it's not porn, just because the frame is those lovely cannondale one doesn't make it is.
if a person think your bike is porn (if you post it in the name and face topic), they'll post it here.
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• #17125
Oh you loud-mouthed tit, have you not got manner?
They're just boring (and one shit looking) bike posted by people who think they're cool, and they didn't break the rules, you did by doing a Reader's Wives.
Don't be a codswallop lad.
I hate to be a nagger, but we can see that on the header next to the donate button.