Lon Haldeman
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I prefer to remember Lon on his Kestrel 4000 thanks 
(Oh, with a bungee cord from his hemet to the back of his seat)
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My all time favorite. Check out the depth of the blades on the fork. Apparently, this is not the exact bike Boardman rode.
http://www.flickr.com/.../4012704666/sizes/o/
The other side:
http://www.flickr.com/.../3597376510/sizes/l/
http://www.flickr.com/.../3912239447/sizes/l/
The road production version is a little different:
1984 Olympic team bike
http://www.firstflightbikes.com/olympic.htm
From People magazine
August 06, 1984 Vol. 22 No. 6
http://www.people.com/.../0,,20088394,00.html
Maybe It Looks Funny, but Chester Kyle’s New Olympic Bike Could Turn Out a Winner
“It’s the greatest thing since the invention of the wheel,” exults U.S. Olympic bike racer Roy Knickman, 19. “No other country will have anything to compete with it.” The U.S. team calls it the “funny bike,” but the new machine’s performance is no joke. Pared to streamlined perfection the U.S. team’s super-cycle may well help it ride off with a clutch of medals in the team and individual pursuit and 100-km team time trials at the L.A. Games. If it does, it will be partly with thanks to the aerodynamic wizardry of Chester Kyle, 55, the engineer and inventor who oversaw the bike’s bizarre design. Deadpans Kyle, “So far it hasn’t slowed them down any.”
A professor of biomechanical engineering at Cal State Long Beach, Kyle has been pushing the speed limit for bicycles since 1973, when he first demonstrated that some 80 percent of a rider’s energy goes into fighting wind resistance. His present generation of bikes, costing up to $20,000 apiece, were created by his six-man design team to weigh as little as 11 pounds. The frame tubing is made from a super-light alloy, cast teardrop-shaped with blunt end forward to slip through the air. All holes, which create drag by stirring up turbulence, were plugged or smoothed over. Spoked wheels can be replaced with plastic Kevlar disks.
Racers will wear Kyle’s skintight suit, and the whole rig will be topped off with a swept-back helmet that makes the rider look—and fly—“like a missile,” says Kyle. “Theoretically in a four-and-a-half-minute race,” he adds, “the bicycle with the helmet, shoes and suit could save 11 or 12 seconds.” In races where fractions of a second usually determine victory, that’s a big margin.
The bike’s unusually small, 24-inch diameter wheels also help. For example, in the team pursuit (a high-speed chase around the cycling track in which opposing four-man teams race over 4,000 meters) the tighter wheels allow riders to stay closer to one another and better use the leader’s slipstream. “I don’t think the bikes are intrinsically faster,” says racer Brent Emery, 26, “but they allow you to sit closer and recuperate faster. The faster you recuperate, the faster you ride when you lead the pace line again.” Steve Hegg, 21, a dark horse in the 4,000-meter individual pursuit, is more enthusiastic. “The bike’s a big improvement,” he says, “and Kyle’s skintight suit is great.”
A cyclist himself, Kyle founded the International Human Powered Vehicle Association, which sponsors an HPV race each year at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. “At first it was a joke,” he says. “Now, with the energy shortage and the Olympics, people aren’t laughing anymore.” Indeed the speediest HPVs—low-riding, three-wheeled, streamlined pods called Vectors—have exceeded 60 mph on sheer pedal power. But the technological edge alone won’t win races. Says Steve Hegg, “It’s still the team riders that count in winning medals.”
Original article:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/25084717/Chet-Kyle-1984-Bike
Can you however tell us who made the frames?
(Oh, I know I know I know!)
And the Trimble…lets not forget the Trimble…so much for the P3C being “cutting edge”…
Yep Trimble was cool
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Serotta?
I am pretty sure that Trimble made the first commercially available behind the seat bottle launcher.
Serotta?
I dont know the answer, but thats not a bad guess:
serotta was most certainly the frame builder for those huffy bikes.
I would not be so sure about that…Ben was there and did allot of work, there was however a guy that flew in from 3Rensho 
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ok well, maybe I spoke too soon. serotta made the huffy bikes for the 7-11 team, so I assumed that they made that one too.
No no, you are correct…but Yamagucci did most of the metal work. After there was a sort of falling out and each went their own way. Koichi started making some really wild stuff and ended up as the frame builder for many “Brand” name bikes that had labels from Huffy to Murray and Schwinn.
interesting, I didnt know that. some good trivia knowledge.
Shall we bring up Tom Kellogg? He had more labels on his bikes than anyone I think
I would not be so sure about that…Ben was there and did allot of work, there was however a guy that flew in from 3Rensho
The scans of an article here, say that Mike Melton built it at the Huffy “Tech Center”.
1996 Sports Illustrated article on Project 96 with some bike pjorn
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I was off by one Olympics…maybe. Did you notice that the bikes in the images have Raleigh? When I was at OTC Springs (1990-91) I had the chance to hang out with Koichi and spent some time in his workshop. At that time he had a few of the bikes from the (at that time recent) past there.
Koichi began working with the US Cycling Federation as National Team Mechanic in 1988, and, in 1989, he began making prototype frames for the US National Team and became the lone official framebuilder of the United States Olympic Cycling Team.
keep it coming- old tri stuff too!
Here is what I want pictures of:
- 88 and 92 olympic ttt bikes
- Kenny Souza bikes- Nishiki Linear, Haral
- Mark Allen bikes
- Aerolite bikes
- Joel Thompsons 24 inch wheel Holland with the multi color paint and custom aero bars
- Hamilton 24 inch wheel bikes with the Hamilton 3 spoke wheel
- 1st generation QR superforms- the excel steel ones with splatter paint. Extra points for the Ray Browning prototype one. Triple extra points if John Gailson was riding on it with the “jesus is lord” sign swinging on the toptube at Desert Princess.
- Any cool/wild looking aerobars- like some of the stuff Tinley would rock
- Hookers
- Anything that Kent Bostick rode
- Aerosports parts