granted, i’m new to the sport, but i’ve read as much material and seen as many pictures as i could get my hands on, and i’ve never seen something like this.
http://homepage.mac.com/richcruse/.Pictures/Lance/lancearm.jpg
explain?
That’s the infamous Scott Drop-in bar. LeMond also rode that bar too. The funnier Scott bar was the old Extreme and you can find a picture of that over on Brad Kearns’ site. Ahh… the old days.
Those are the Scott Drop-in LF. The inside hand position allowed for a low aero hand hold. Personally I thought it was more of a clever marketing idea by Scott to provide sticker space. In my box’o’stuff, there’s a pair.
You are pretty new to the sport, Scott made those bars some time ago although I forget thier name. It kind of has the same aero effect that the shorite aero bars have now. They got you lower and more aero than riding the drops or hoods.
If your new to the sport youd crack up at some of the aero contraptions of the past.
Scott Drop-ins. An effort to provide a mass start-legal aero position on drop bars. Found a picture of Lemond using them in the '90 TdF: http://tandem-fahren.de/Mitglieder/Christoph_Timm/greg90.jpg
My wife still has those bars on her bike.
Russ
I still ride the Scott extreme bars. I keep purchasing new front ends (syntace, profile, etc), ride them for six months, and go back to the Scotts. The comfort, the fit, and at only 440g I’m not lugging around an extra pound of front end. I only wish someone would unearth a secret stash and put them on ebay.
At one point there was a Scott Drop-In LF that curved outward from the bottom of the drop and held the old neon Scott link in the middle. It was the same as if you had run a clip-on bar off of the Drop-In extensions. Those were pretty cool bars and would probably be exactly what you would like.
Just make you don’t hit your knees on them when standing on climbs.
I remember when Norm Alvis took it a step further and attached scott aero bars to the drop in. (Tour of China 95’). It made it interesting when it was time to shift/brake.
I have one (no shims, no pads) that I got on Ebay…painted is scratched where the pads were, other than that it’s just tape residue. All your’s if you want it…I bought a Hed instead.
Just email directly, and we can work out where to ship it to.
Dave
As others have said those are Scott Drop-ins and the reason you do not see them around is because I think that these bars are no longer legal under UCI (and probably USCF) racing rules. Something few people realize is that like Lance Armstrong today, Greg Lemond provided financial backing and considerable technical input into the development of those and many other products that the company marketed back then! Lemond facilitated the almost overnight adoption of aero bars with his narrow, 8-second victory over Laurent Fignon in 1989, the narrowest margin of victory in 87-year history of the Tour de France’s!
Michael
I believe that they also had bolt ons that attached to the bottom of drop bars to give the same effect. They went the way of the spinaci, due to changes in UCI regulations. I have still seen a few pairs of the Scott bars around.
Scott were the first aerobars that I owned, I still have the shifter bridge in my parts stash at home…I think.
KR
Scott Drop-ins are still legal under USCF and ACA. Don’t know about UCI.
Lemond facilitated the almost overnight adoption of aero bars with his narrow, 8-second victory over Laurent Fignon in 1989, the narrowest margin of victory in 87-year history of the Tour de France’s!
And people still argue about the pony tail… 
Actually, when questioned about it, Greg attributed it to providing him with greater leverage rather than the pure aerodynamics of the bar/position. I recall he was playing around with an SRM back then, too…
Scott rakes were the under bar add ons. And I still contend one of the best ever one piece aero bars was the Scott DH (the version with the black bar clamping area…made by 3T) with bar bridge (for added stiffness), Grip shift, and bmx style brake levers…with the aftermarket lemond aero arm rests…with ceegees aero pads. Light, stiff, functional…and bombproof. Never once saw a recall on any of that stuff (can Profile say the same…I think not). Sorry I sold my pair but they have gone to someone who put them on his wall as a conversation piece in his office. I still ride a pair of drop ins with a bolt on to this day.
a far more obscure piece of lemond/scott equipment were a set of cables. one end ran from the brake hoods, and the other connected at the fork dropout.
the idea was that when you stood to climb or sprint, all the flex from yanking on the bars was eliminated, as you pulled the bar the cable tightened and did not move.
it looked like a biplane, with the drop ins and one day when greg signed in and rolled to the start of a tdf stage one of the other riders looked down at the contraption and asked " so greg, are we going flying today?"
find a set of THOSE on ebay, and you will have something.
Howabout the straight bar the bolted from drop to drop. It was called the breakaway bar. It worked pretty well and also stiffened the handlebars. When hooker was making their t/t frames, they made a breakaway-style bar that was flat and a lot more arrow. I still have both of these bars in my stash.
as obscure…forget the name of the thing…essentially a rope that attached to your stem and wrapped around your waist so you could get extra leverage by pushing backwards on it…used in conjunction with the other gizmo that looked like a football tooth protector with a wire that attached to your stem (looking like a telephone interstation by now) that did pretty much the same thing only not for use with dentures. Oh the weird things that have come out.
Hey…I’ve got a hooker stashed in my closet too.
Actually…it’s on my track bars…holy smokes they stiffen the bar, and look cool to boot.
Anybody remember the steering dampeners? I believe I saw a picture of somebody’s TT position (black bike, black skinsuit, black aero helmet) who had one installed.
I believe the waist belt was used in the 80’s by the Italian TTT squad at worlds to great effect…“Cinco Belt” or something like that?
Other random stuff…the mirrors that VT used to market so you can look forward while TT’ing with your head down. How about the Wear-n-Tear armwings?
Dave “technogeek”
Holy crap(laughing!!!), the arm wings, I remember those… Total batman skinsuit. The mirror gizmo was a good one too.