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2014 Chery J3 - (18/7/20) meh.
2011 Geely MK 1.5L (1/7/21)
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@pip-bip
It's hard to decide what has changed more: cars or bicycles.Most current road cyclists (apart from @drVanTraveler) would consider that bicycle almost unrideable...
Ours is not to reason why...merely to point and giggle.
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@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly said in hour rule:
It's hard to decide what has changed more: cars or bicycles.
Most current road cyclists (apart from @drVanTraveler) would consider that bicycle almost unrideable...
Hey! I resemble that remark.
The cyclists I pass (going uphill) all seem to be fairly miserable with their straight bars hurting their arms and their heavy bikes with huge tires killing their forward motion. God forbid their batteries die..The old Datsun in the pic (probably manual) is undriveable by 90% of modern drivers. I'd daily that too..
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@pip-bip I looked up Molteni and saw it is a furniture company. Looks nice I thought, let me look at their products and prices.....never mind($$$$$$)
."We might lose ourselves but we will never be lost"
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@drVanTraveler Thanks. The furniture company was the first thing that came up on Google and it's Italian so that's why I thought it was them.
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@pip-bip @drVanTraveler so that is I'm guessing a 1970's TT set up. Other than the pedals that bike would be very fun to ride with some say 23c tubular tires and not the 19's it looks to have. The car as you said proably even has an automatic choke. If it's a 510 it's either twin SU's on a 1.8L 2.0L for about 120 HP.
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@drVanTraveler When I saw moltini I expected to see a picture of eddy merckx, not some hairy italian.
And you may ask yourself, "Where does that highway go to?"
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Eddy!
Here's some fun modern-meets-Eddy-Merckx-bike fun.
https://www.globalcyclingnetwork.com/video/can-a-vintage-superbike-survive-a-killer-climb
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@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly Yup. And that is the only kind of bike I like to ride. Modern bikes are too stiff; they don't talk to me. I have an aluminum-framed MTB that klunks over the road versus my last race bike, an '87 Bianchi, that is a sweet dance to ride. I used to break the bottom brackets of steel frames by the end of the season. And, I'm sure that can't be done with modern frames. Tradeoffs. Modern frames have more advertisement space...
Live on a 1959 Rhodes Bounty II, DD a 2001 Subabru Legacy, 1996 Gary Fischer Patagonia, 1987 Bianchi
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@barnie Have you posted pics of the Bianchi? If not, plz do.
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@pip-bip this is my current road bike. A comfortable carbon fiber disc brake wonder machine. I’m sure it weighs more than the bike in the photo.
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@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly said in hour rule:
It's hard to decide what has changed more: cars or bicycles.
I would say cars, because a mid 1970s anything is considered a death trap by modern standards but a mid 70s road bike is about as safe as a brand new one, at least in dry weather.
Bikes have also maintained a constant 1 humanpower engine, whereas cars have evolved far cleaner and more powerful engines since 50 years ago.
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@atfsgeoff
You'd be surprised as to how different a modern road racing bicycle is to the one pictured. Right down to the geometry of the frame itself.In fact, the only contemporary parts from the old bike that a modern road racing cyclist could use on their own is probably the saddle and (in some cases) the tyres.
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@barnie
Oh modern road bikes can be broken. They mostly go in the chainstays near the bottom bracket or the seatstays about a third of the way back from the hub.Not all modern road bikes are hyper stiff. The rise/return of the endurance/audax/all road category has resulted in quite a number of bikes (mostly composite but not always) with compliance designed into the frames using lessons learnt in the hardtail MTB world.
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@Highlander isn’t he Raymond Poulidor ?
