Serotta bankrupt??

[ustabe]

That Zinn article really makes it sound like nothing was going on when Zinn got started. That was *totally* untrue. But, if you are out to inflate the Zinn brand, it does sounds better.

Zinn does miss the point about frame building in the US in the 70s. Let me start the list of '70s builders: Tom Ritchey, Chris Chance, Peter Mooney, Whitcomb USA, Masi, Tanguay, JP Weigle, Peter Oullette, Columbine, Richard Sachs, Pepi Limongi, Strawberry, . . . What's remarkable about Serotta is the way he grew his business through the '80s and '90s, when most of the other guys folded or concentrated on a narrow niche.

Regarding the pro tour bikes, the 7-Eleven "Huffies" broke during the spring classics of their first and and only season out. I recently had an opportunity to work on one of the replicas of this series, and I can only say it's no wonder. The beautiful metal work involved serious cutting, relieving, and thinning of the head and seat lugs and fork crown. It looked lovely and doubtlessly lightened the bike, but it obviously would not hold up on Belgian cobbles beneath guys like Ron Kiefel, Bob Roll, and Davis Phinney.

By the start of the Tour, the slurpies had individually replaced the Serottas with bikes by their favorite builders, painted to look like the Huffy Serottas. And the following year, 7-Eleven was outfitted by Eddy Merckx, a builder whose bikes were anything if not durable.

 

[Race Radio]

Zin says Hampsten's Huffy that he won the Giro on was a Serotta......it was a Landshark

 

[Benotti69]

Zin says Hampsten's Huffy that he won the Giro on was a Serotta......it was a Landshark

"Hampsten's bike was actually a custom made rig crafted to his specifications by famed US builder John Slawta of Land Shark "

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features...dy-hampstens-1988-7-eleven-huffy-giro-ditalia