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#91
04-27-2005, 09:21 PM
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Trek
1989 Trek 1100, bonded Aluminum.
Rode for 10 years before a Serotta Atlanta replaced it. Standing and sprinting in the big ring was good for only about 10 pedal strokes before the flex in the frame caused the front derailleur to shift to the small ring. Not a very usefull feature  Original components were low end Suntour stuff. The rear freewheel came apart and dropped balls out in my first race. Frame and fork only original bits still on it, but it still see's time on my trainer. Nice to have a bike to sweat on you don't care so much about. Dale 
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#93
04-28-2005, 02:19 PM
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Nashbar 7000R
My first road bike I bought used off a lady in 1997 and it was ridiculously too small for me.
 I stuck on a huge seat post and stem and thought I was hot stuff. I rode that thing thousands of miles and affectionately, and sometimes not so affectionately, nicknamed it the POS for Piece o' S***. Last summer I upgraded to an Ottrott and couldn't be happier. 
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#94
04-28-2005, 02:38 PM
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An early 1960's Allegro that was @5 years old when I bought it with grocery-bagging money in 1969 when I was fourteen years old. It had fallen off of the previous owner's car, been crudely and inaccurately straightened, and thus had a frame that was as crooked as the Bush family--I could ride my Schwinn Collegiate no-hands but not this rig. It had Stronglight 57 cranks, Gran Sport derailleurs with bar end shifters, Nuovo Record high flange hubs, and Weinmann tubular rims with big, fat Clement GranSport65 tires--one step down from Elvezias! The gearing made me tough; we lived in the Hollywood hills near Griffith Park in L.A., and it was geared 15-22 rear and 46-50 front. By the time the seat tube cracked in two different places (due to the Cro-Magnon frame alignment job, not due to any power input of mine) I could climb Laurel Canyon, Topanga Canyon, Beechwood, or Outpost Road on it--LA readers here will be able to relate. Didn't then and don't have now any flat ground top end, the weeknight North Hollywood Wheelmen rides through Griffith Park were exercises in sheer futility on it. It did get me through about ten centuries and one Los Angeles Wheelmen Lowland Double, however.
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#95
04-28-2005, 03:52 PM
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1987 Trek 1500 with a mix of Shimano 600 and Sante components. It still hangs in my garage.
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#96
04-28-2005, 04:48 PM
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space pac
Last edited by csb; 04-28-2005 at 05:28 PM. Reason: answer only whats axed
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#97
04-28-2005, 05:18 PM
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Here is a picture (Bad quality) of me and my first "real" road racing bike.
It was a Zeus, made in Spain c1974 Zeus made their own gruppo of mainly rip-offs of campy designs of the day (I'm sure they paid for that in lawsuits) But it was sweet stuff and about 1/2 the price of Campy. I'm the rider on the left, with the hat on. Taken somewhere (can't remember exactly) during our cross country ride in 1979 YIKES! that's 37 years ago! VF- Old Man Last edited by victoryfactory; 11-30-2016 at 06:29 AM.
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#98
04-28-2005, 09:35 PM
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Hmmm, 1980 VeloSport SuperAero constructed with Tange aero tubing and Shimano Dura Ace AX aero gruppo. Very flash bike, but too much of a noodle for my 190lbs. Plenty of admiring glances when I showed up with it at a local crit. Stolen two years later and replaced by a custom Marinoni that I still own but no longer ride because of my fragile back.
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#99
04-29-2005, 03:45 PM
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Mso
I guess I wouldn't take into consideration my 1972 Raleigh Gran Prix. So my first real Road Racing bike was a 1985 DeRosa w/Campy Record. Sweet bike, sold if for my Legend Ti in 97. I wish I still had it
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#100
07-23-2005, 07:43 PM
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That time again....
Chance for the newer members of the forum to tell us about their first "Real" road bike.
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#101
07-23-2005, 08:02 PM
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'75 metallic red Nishiki International with full SunTour/DiaCompe gear. Was a very nice bike, for the time. Traded it for a Fiorelli, which was a mistake.
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#102
07-23-2005, 08:36 PM
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First "real" bike was a late 60's Frejus purchased in 1973. Kinda beige with Nuovo Record, Universal brakes, Cinelli bars/stem, Fiamme red labels and a Unicanitor-Cinelli saddle. After awhile I repainted it myself, badly, and then had it chromed. I ended up selling the frame to a buddy, and put all the gear onto a brand new '77 Raleigh Pro frame. That frame lasted me until my first Colnago . . .
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#103
10-24-2005, 03:18 PM
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Bump!
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#104
10-24-2005, 03:29 PM
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1989
Cannondale w/105 index shifters. Probably put well over 8k miles on that bike. Good bike. Still have it. Don't ride it much though. Then again, I don't get to ride much at all anymore. Once or twice a week if lucky.... I need to win the lottery...
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#105
10-24-2005, 03:32 PM
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1989 cannondale criterium with custom paint, 105, the index shifting and oval biopace cranks. I bought it brand new for about $400.00 and I thought it was the cats a$$. It was stolen sometime in the early nineties. I did see one just like on EBay a while back but I couldnt spare the change to buy it, to bad it had the original pedals,reflectors and eveything.
Heres a pic of the one I saw on EBay. Not mine Last edited by JeffreyG; 10-24-2005 at 03:39 PM.
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