Bike porn

From anti...

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Rare-BIANCHI-MEGA-MAX-PARIS-ROUBAIX-RACING-BIKE-SHIMANO-DURA-ACE-ULTEGRA-TOP-/00/s/MTA2MlgxNjAw/z/bmQAAOxyYANTbRut/$_57.JPG

:op

And it should stay in anti because that bike is a late nineties mid-range aluminium bike with a non-professional groupset and non-Paris Roubaix wheels and tires to which somebody added a Rock Shox fork.long after these forks were used by the pros. It has absolutely nothing to do with Paris-Roubaix.

Following the introduction of the Rock Shox Road fork by Greg Lemond and Gilbert Duclos Lassalle and the victory of the latter in 1992, Bianchi, like most other manufacturers, started to experiment with suspention too. In 1993 Franco Ballerini used a Allsop Softride stem with elastomere suspensionin his steel Bianchi frame and rode it to a second place behind Duclos Lassalle (who scored his second win with a Rock Shox equipped bike) and in 1994 Bianchi headed to Roubaix with several bikes equipped with Rock Shox forks, including Museeuws fully (which he ditched in the race final while Tschmil rode to victory with a Rock Shox equipped steel "Caloi" Merckx). After that Bianchi kept experimenting with titanium framed Rock Shox equipped bikes untill 1996 when suspension disappeared from the peloton as quickly as it came, because riders realized that the extra comfort on the 55km of cobble stones did not compensate the loss of stiffness and the weight penalty on the 200km of tarmac. From 1995 till 2014 Paris-Roubaix was won with bikes without suspension forks.

Yeah to me it looks a pretty great road bike (barring the colour matched stem) great to see something that doesn't have stupid carbon wheels, I bet with DA, that frame, that wheelset and the rest of the setup it will ride excellent.
Don't understand the hate, well, I guess it's just the standard LFGSS someone hates it so I'll hate it stuff.
I would love that bike.

Ditto. A few things I'd alter about the build (for me), but at its heart that's an ace bike.

those bibshorts! <<<<<<<<<<

ftfy

™ saddle angle

ftfy

I like the Independent, but it doesn't have a colour matched stem, they're bars.. which are a bit of a negative point imo.

I like the Independent, but it doesn't have a colour matched stem, they're bars.. which are a bit of a negative point imo.

It's actually a stemdlebar or integrandle. Singular.

Following the introduction of the blah blah blah

Worth posting if not for spurious reaction.

Not worth copy-posting in two extremely popular threads tho.

How much would that De Rosa set me back?.....want.

12K i'll give it a miss.A little excessive for a commute.

12K i'll give it a miss.A little excessive for a commute.

Not worth it, and I should know...!

saddle angle vs stem angle is confusing my brain.

it's just an inverted one of these

saddle angle vs stem angle is confusing my brain.

Didn't you have your levers set at a similar position when you got that white LOOK?

Amey: could you post some adult-sized bikes?

Amey: could you post some adult-sized bikes?

But that's 4130, too heavy, don't you know anything amey?

Didn't you have your levers set at a similar position when you got that white LOOK?

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Look's got stem, saddle and levers within standard/reasonable tolerances, I thought.

3/10 troll eduardo

Amey... seriously

dat xcr doe....

yours for only €3500 (f+f)

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Look's got stem, saddle and levers within standard/reasonable tolerances, I thought.

You roll it in South once with the front end a little lower than that.

^^ as pointlessly expensive metal bikes go, that's lovely. Appropriate tyres could be veloflex or challange or at least vittoria. They've put Gatorskin hardshells on it. Hipster nodders.

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