Could a pro win on steel?

[spirito]

... by a shirtless ponderer.

Never on these forums have so few words contained such untethered insight and natural wit, lain with an elegant insouciance.

Bravo, very hearty LOLz !!!!

Very funny !!!!

[gink_04]

As it is they pros are running very light carbon bikes then sand bagging to get em up to weight with srms, di2 and then even adding weights under the BB

man the mech from the USA team at the track world champs was just duck taping cone spanners into the seat post

[brendan]

Not sure exactly, but Frank VDB won shitloads of races in the late 90s riding for Mapei and Cofidis, and when he didn't win he came second or third. Most while drunk

ftfy.

[SanEsteban]

Not exactly the same, but food for thought... Boonen won the green jersey in the '07 TdF on an aluminium alloy frame when everyone else was on the fribé. It looks to be similar to the SWorks E5 frameset from '03ish.

The interwebs has plenty of rumours saying that this bike was a steel pegoretti (doesn't reaklly look like it), or at least that Boonen raced at some stage on one.






And this is his bike from the 07 roubaix. That doesn't look like any Speciliazed I've seen, apparanely aluminium alloy also. Note that he one in 2008 on a Specialized Roubaix (carbon with excellent vertical compliance). Aluminium in the roubaix??!!



More here

[heavymetal]

On a similar note, Cuddles had a Ti Baum painted up as a Ridley which he used to use for training.

[HeavyMetalCyclist]

Jeremy rides a steel bike and he routinely flogs me on my crabon bike.

Case closed.

[haitch]

RKP has the story on the Boonen bike. Spesh basically did him a custom Allez to get his geo right before knocking out a Tarmac mould in his size, because moulds are expen$$$$ive.

The Pegoretti story is total horseshit.

[horatio]

The interwebs has plenty of rumours saying that this bike was a steel pegoretti (doesn't reaklly look like it), or at least that Boonen raced at some stage on one.

This is meant to be a Pegoretti? Would be cool if true, oversized Columbus tubing?

[The JAMS]

Not sure exactly, but Frank VDB won shitloads of races in the late 90s riding for Mapei and Cofidis, and when he didn't win he came second or third. All with panache and flair. I presume he rode some kind of steel Bronago in that era. Sad what happened to him.
Good reading, if you have a few minutes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_V...oucke_(cyclist)

Panache, flair and a fuckload of recreational and performance enhancing addititives. Man, his story is fucked up. pretty damning indictment of pro cycling. would make a good telemovie though.

[nikcee]

My understanding was that Cav was riding a Beercanium Scott whilst with HTC up until the big 'S' took over sponsoring that team.

Everyone else was on the 'fantastic plastic' but he couldn't get a bike to his liking made out of it.