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Miguel Indurains hour record bike

And the TT Version

Miguel Indurain's 1994 Pinarello Espada

A true 'capolavoro' (work of art), Pinarello's dramatic, innovative Espada has become an icon of Italian design. Explains Fausto Pinarello: "There were only four of these bicycles made: two for the road and two for the track - just for Indurain. We developed this bike in 1994 when there weren't the UCI rules on bicycle design and you were free to create truly special bicycles. We developed this bike in collaboration with Ing. Giacchi, an aerodynamics engineer who has worked extensively with Formula One racing. We realized that we couldn't make a bicycle with this kind of shape in metal so we decided to use carbon fibre. The first version was made for track, for the world hour record and then we modified it for the derailleurs and internal cable guides. Of course, this bike was made to measure for Indurain, so the carbon fibre molds still exist. The cost of each frame mold was about $5,000, not counting manufacturing costs. Indurain did break the world hour record on the Espada, but he had never done it before."

seriously, that bridge is out of this world. This forum takes by breath away.

Nice link Murtle : )

Love a good Mixte

miguel indurain liked his stem high.

what would he know about bike aesthetics eh :-)

He just rode them (rather well)

i saw a rotor agilis crank in the flesh for the first time today, oh my..

Lovely Gazelle from Route Canale cycles

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650b Grand Bois Hetre tyres FTW;

V. nice Gazelle.

i saw a rotor agilis crank in the flesh for the first time today, oh my..

Did we learn nothing from the early 90s?

Cutting any highly stressed aluminium alloy component from billet is a fundamentally flawed method. It is sometime necessary, for short run production, highly complex shapes or precise control of external dimensions, but forging is preferred. Shimano can forge hollow cranks, and if you don't have their industrial muscle and expertise, it might be best to leave them to it.

Lovely Gazelle from Route Canale cycles

Check full specs @ http://routecanalebicycles.wordpress.com/

looks really nice in real life too, the lucky buyer will get one toight boike (as wharry would say)

Want (Alex Singer Sportif 2008);

Is the stem really too high on that?

only according to how the bike builder probably designed it - good old fistful of seatpost and all that - nowt wrong with it but it's not ideal

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Want!

youre looking for the anti porn thread

is that porn to you?

hahaaa oh god no... sweet baby jesus please make this picture go out of my head!!

Lovely Gazelle from Route Canale cycles

Check full specs @ http://routecanalebicycles.wordpress.com/

porn. BUT: why a sugino zen chainring on 70ies-bike. anti!

porn. BUT: why a sugino zen chainring on 70ies-bike. anti!

7600 hubs are severely anachronistic too, but both updates are characteristic of a bike which has seen service rather than being kept in a museum. Hubs and rings (and chains and sprockets) wear out several times in the lifetime of a steel frame.

Early model Kinesis aluminum GT Track Bike made in the USA.

Is that really a Shimano cruiser chain on that GT ? And what about the aheadset stem on a threaded steel fork ?

aheadset stem on a threaded steel fork ?

What makes you think the fork is threaded?

And are those 650c wheels............

It's one fugly bike, that's for sure.