In 1991:



In 2003:

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Wilfried Heinle

Artificial Intelligence can never beat natural stupidity.

LOL which ones? or both?

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Wilfried Heinle

Artificial Intelligence can never beat natural stupidity.

That is way cool. Blows my photos away actually.

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

I dig those sunglasses!

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Adrian in Vancouver

Thank you :D

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Wilfried Heinle

Artificial Intelligence can never beat natural stupidity.

Tom, what size is the small chain ring on the Colnago? It doesn't seem much smaller than the big ring.

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"How bad can it be?" - SimpleS

Tom D's 1986 looked like my 1996

Wilfried: not much change in helmet technology over 12 years, eh???

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

LOL I know, maybe I'll get a new one this winter :)

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Wilfried Heinle

Artificial Intelligence can never beat natural stupidity.

I think it's a 42.... Don't remember. I loved that bike.

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

Oh, I thought it looked bigger than that. Lovely looking bike, nice piece of classic Italian design.

Did you manage to get through to Anne?

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"How bad can it be?" - SimpleS

The bikes, the travel, the cameras, the watches...and now a road?

http://www.mapquest.com/...ountry=US&zoom=7

...the things you find on the internet :P

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"your horse is too high" - tigerchik

Do you remember the bike split for the Colnago?

Hey Tom,
I have a question about the bike stand holding your Cervelo P3SL. Is your bike loose in there or is it firm? I believe I have one very similar and my road bike is a little loose and leans on one side. It still holds and supports the bike but I wondered if it should be a tighter fit. How tight is the P3 in there?
Thanks,
Sheridan

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Then:



Way Back When:

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

Huh?! The stuff age groupers use now is the same or better than what the pros use now! There is very little to no "unobtanium" used by 99% of the pros now... you can ride exactly what Stadler or Kraft rides, for example. As a matter of fact... don't you advertise that on Ebay with your Kuota?

Tom, that is a sweat Colnago. You were a man ahead of your time with the behind the seat water bottle launcher :-)

Tom -

You will be adding those pictures to the hottie thread too, right?

BTW, what happened to that thread?

Suzanne

Some of us anyway. :-(

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

That Colnago is a thing of beauty!!!!

Kinda like a 68 Camero -- or a 70 corvette -- sure there are faster out there -- but there are none with more class.

Thanks for posting the pics.

"Kinda like a 68 Camero -- or a 70 corvette -- "

They made nice cars then. My cousin owned a 70 Vette with a 427. He sold it to buy a pick up truck when he got married. He still kicks himself today. I owned a lot of the British stuff - Triumph TR4, Spitfire, TR8, MGB, MG Midget, Mini-Cooper, etc. My favorite though was my two Porsche 356B's. Those and the early 911's were the real deal with air cooled rear engines. Not like the pretenders on steroids that the company makes today!

In many cases the stuff the age groupers were using in 2004 was better than stuff the pros are using in 2004.

Tom,

That Colnago bike has COMPACT CRANKS!

Ever the innovator, you were using the Victory cranks Campag had w/ the 116mm BCD.

You could have gone 50t/36t on that bike.

-SD

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https://www.kickstarter.com/...bike-for-the-new-era

Tom - truly not trying to be a smart%$$...

As someone who happens to think equipment is vastly overrated (me), have your ironman bike splits changed significantly between 'then' and 'now'?

Have you ever considered a career as a game show contestant?You either know way more than you should or are the best B.S. artist in the bike indus.I bet you know the serial # on that bike too.
Cullen