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Classic Lightweights

  • 20-05-2010 4:11pm
    #1
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,313 ✭✭✭


    Just thought i'd share this site with you lot.

    Hard to imagine doing the Wicklow200, never mind the Tour De France on some of these bikes.

    http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/index.html


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  • #2
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    3650441990_8a6317eaf3_m.jpg

    i used to do an awful lot of miles on this (frame is about 1.4kg i think) columbus sl

    prefer my modern cf frame though

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #3
    Tonyandthewhale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭Tonyandthewhale


    Those old frames mightn't ride as well as their modern equivalents but they're certainly pretty, frame building really was an art back in the day.


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,427 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    dtwitchett6.jpg

    :eek::eek::eek::confused:


  • #5
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    that man should sue

    IMG_4171.jpg

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #6
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,223 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Porn!

    hetchins-pu-rb1.JPG


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  • #7
    rottenhat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,352 ✭✭✭rottenhat


    Lumen wrote: »
    Porn!

    hetchins-pu-rb1.JPG


    Eddie Dunne is still riding a Hetchins for audax - I think he has four or five of them.


  • #8
    Piercemeear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 200 ✭✭Piercemeear


    denison-rb1.jpg

    Probably my favourite site on the Internet.


  • #9
    tawfeeredux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 806 ✭✭✭tawfeeredux


    This is the one for the W200, it mite add a few hours to your usual time though...
    To change gears, the rider must stop pedalling and twist the top part of the lever which allows the 'flippers' on the chain-stay to move back and forth pushing the chain into gear, this has to be done while pedalling backwards.
    Then the chain tension can be manually maintained onto the slotted teeth once in gear, the rider can then resume pedalling.
    romeo-romeo-rb1.jpg


  • #10
    niceonetom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,833 ✭✭✭niceonetom


    I find the evolution of the gearing systems more interesting than the frames - once you've seen one fancy lug...

    I like that Romeo above, it look like it works a bit like the Cambio Corsa, explained here by Dave Moulton. Check out the videos. Tulio Campagnolo was a bloody genius really. The rack and pinion dropout/axle affair to do away with the need for a chain tensioner is just brilliant.

    axledrop_JPG.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1272231291892


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,427 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ednwireland wrote: »
    that man should sue

    IMG_4171.jpg

    That may be the ugliest bike I have ever seen.


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  • #12
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Deleted User wrote: »
    That may be the ugliest bike I have ever seen.


    This one's worse !

    bauer_93_roubaix.jpg


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,427 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sweet Jeebus! That's practically a recumbent!


  • #14
    blorg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    07Lapierre wrote: »
    Hard to imagine doing the Wicklow200, never mind the Tour De France on some of these bikes.
    High end steel bikes of yesteryear were not actually that heavy. Certainly you could get steel bikes lighter than entry level road bikes today and plenty of people do the Wicklow 200 on them!

    To take an example, Eddy Merckx's 1972 hour record bike weighed 5.5kg, well under the modern UCI weight limit.

    EddyMerckxHourRecordBike.jpg

    Lots of vintage weight weenieism here


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