Who recognizes this bike??
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4loren posted 3 years ago.
Can't help you. But now I'm wondering how long it will take for someone to design the frameless bike? There seems to be a different section of a frame removed each year. :D
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Noel posted 3 years ago.
I recognize the bike Inlovewithcervelo, or is that cheating?
Noel.
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Tpup posted 3 years ago.
Do you know when and where that photo was taken? Lance had a top secret time trial bike built for last years tour. It was smaller at the crank and was the fastest bike he had ridden up to that point. It was all black and he used it for training and some TDF tune up races. He noticed a drop off in power toward the end of rides and found out that narrower bottom was costing him 12 watts of power, he junked it... I have only seen one photo of the "secret" bike and cannot tell if that is it or not.
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tcrunner07 posted 3 years ago.
i know a guy who has that same bike but in red white and blue colors but i dont like the bike personally..idk the name of it...the bike squeekes and moans alot
If you get a flat, and don't have a tube, Suck it up and run it in!!!
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mmakbenton posted 3 years ago.
Isn't that a Cheetah? Or at least a very similar variation. They have an option for a CRAZY front end. There are pictures on their website right here:
http://www.catbikes.ch/riderse.htm
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Dwayne posted 3 years ago.
Wouldnt he be bound by contract to ride a Trek?If so would'nt that make it a Trek? I've seen a couple of bikes like this Lotus comes to mind but if I remember all bikes like this were outlawed and all bikes must now have a main triangle shape.
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Jeyradan posted 3 years ago.
Doesn't look like a Cheetah to me. Look at where the top tube meets the stays. (Or doesn't, in the case of the mystery bike, but does on the Cheetah).
Anyway, he doesn't have to ride a Trek bike just because of the sponsorship, he just has to re-decal it.
Doesn't anyone remember that Lance rode a Litespeed Blade one year? Only it was re-decaled with Trek because of the sponsorship? I think someone recently posted a review of the new Blade that mentioned it (sorry, can't remember who, or what post).
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inlovewithcerve posted 3 years ago.
I do not know the exactly date but it has to be before 1996. He is wearing a motorola helmet! And in his first Tour victory he had Pearl Izumi apparel, this one is Giordana.
But everything I can do is say: Nope it is not... because of...
I do not agree with the CAT, because the Cat top tube is not flat like this one. BP Stealth looks different as well.
Getting a bike to the junk yard is just like Lance is. Because of 12 watts! Ullrich would have ridden the bike... Did you see what kind of time trial equipment he rode this year? Even MOPers in Tri use better equipment than he does. Last year's time trial to Alpe d'Huez was the first time I saw him using nice stuff (Mark Xentis and Lightweight uphill only wheels).
Back to Lance, I assume it might be a CarbonSports (carbonsports.de) but I am not sure. They said something about Lance riding a prototype but not if they had produced it.
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trimoya posted 3 years ago.
That is a Lotus Sport Time Trial bike... Here are a couple of pics of them..
http://www.airointernational.com/lotus.html
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inlovewithcerve posted 3 years ago.
Thanks Trimoya. We can finish the guesswork!
I wonder why the UCI keeps banning such bikes. They are great and help improving. The UCI did not ban 10spd nor STI Levers, so what is the point?
In a mountain time trial like last year's Alp d'Huez the teams had to add aero-bars because of the weight limit. They did not really improve the stiffness of the frame, did they?
I am glad that in my sport all the fancy stuff is allowed.
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Jeyradan posted 3 years ago.
Whoops, sorry - that review was posted on another forum. Here it is, for anyone interested:
http://www.bikesportmichigan.com/reviews/blade05.shtml
"At the 1999 Tour de France Lance Armstrong, a Trek sponsored rider on the U.S. Postal Team, used a Litespeed Blade re-decaled as a Trek for sponsorship reasons. Obviously, the bike wasn’t a Trek product, but a custom made Litespeed Blade with a Trek paint scheme. Armstrong won every time trail that year on the camouflaged Blade."
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inlovewithcerve posted 3 years ago.
Here we go woth a photo from 1999. I am not into the Trek bikes, but it good be true.
Maybe Trek improved building TT bikes. There are a lot of questions I'd like to ask Lance. Maybe I am going to Austin and walk up to his house and we have a chat. :o
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tcrunner07 posted 3 years ago.
personally, i am not a fan of trek either, and i really dont like the look of the Blade. I know looks shouldnt be apart of it that much.....but i realy really dislike the look of it
If you get a flat, and don't have a tube, Suck it up and run it in!!!
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trianimal posted 3 years ago.
let's not turn this forum into a mine is better than yours competition for self-actualizers and posers
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inlovewithcerve posted 3 years ago.
trianimal wrote:
let's not turn this forum into a mine is better than yours competition for self-actualizers and posers
Riding a Blade?? To me no bike looks better than another one. Some are a little more sexy but better? No.
And one can't say that often enough: The legs and the engine decide who wins. ;)
No arguing about who is riding it, but does anybody have a clue which brand it is?
When was this photo taken? As a fan of the old stuff (I have a steel-frame in the basement)(and I ride it on club rides) I'd like to know what bike it is. Thanks for your help.