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Old 12-20-2014, 07:41 AM
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Originally Posted by peanutgallery View Post
The next spring I acqired like the first ultegra kit in the us and promptly won the only crit of my life as a result. Lots of long faced sprinters as I may have weighed 130 pounds at the time. The next race? Everybody had sti, advantage lost. Huge tech leap at the time.

Anyone remember bumping a downtube shifter with a knee in a sprint? Picking a huge gear before a sprint and hoping you could wind it up? Times changed quickly,
I raced before STI's, but never used that technique. I just dropped it into the 13 1km out and hammered.
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