Time to travel back in time, way back. Enjoy bl/white

[tubularglue]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rotterdam_municipal_archives/with/4741543461/

enjoy

 

[For The World]

Awesome photos. Simply awesome. Now to trawl through Flickr to find more like them!

 

[tubularglue]

http://wwwpicaenflandes-cheli.blogspot.com/2009/10/graficas-memorias-maillots-retro-i.html

 

[tubularglue]

http://www.cartesio-episteme.net/calcio/ciclismo.htm

this is by far the best site for photos/newpaper i have come across link below / scroll down on page for diff/riders

http://archiviofoto.unita.it/index.php?valorernd=2&pagina=2&codset=SPR&cod=1844&pg=1

 

[L'arriviste]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rotterdam_municipal_archives/with/4741543461/
enjoy

That takes me back! Funny how things first grow old and then really look old when, at the time, everything felt like it couldn't get more advanced. I feel absolutely ancient now.

What a team! Vanderaeden in his twilight years; Frans Maassen who looked like one of those psychologically complex actors; Edwig Van Hooydonck, who I saw again this year at the Ronde and who had put 'a bit' of weight on since back in the day; The mild-mannered statesman Jelle Nijdam.

And my countryman and fellow Northerner Dave Rayner, who started out riding for Buckler in '91-'92 - tall, pencil-thin and with almost white hair he even looked Dutch - and who I used to ride with sometimes on Saturdays when he was back home. He was killed in an off-season incident in a nightclub in early '94. The fund that bears his name today helps young riders "make it" in Belgium.

 

[tubularglue]

L'arriviste,

i can sympathize with your connection with Dave Rayner.

My good friend died in a freak mtb accident last summer. He was at a park with his mother and daughter and told them he would be back within the hour after going for a short mtb ride. He overcooked a small bridge on his new mtb, and hit the only rock in the gully. The impact was right below his helmet on his temple. The after accident analysis reported that he died before he hit the ground.

I posted a bike that was his, which i had rebuilt. He had taken an 84' specialized allez Se and replaced the downtube and bent the top tube in the process of installing it. After i built it up, we noticed,at the shop, that the top slopes downard in the middle It rides as true as an arrow. unfrickin' believable I love that bike

what is old
is good
as it should
be thought of
often
so never
forgotten

remember this link
or I'll cause a
stink http://archiviofoto.unita.it/index.php?codset=SPR

ps: Rayner's Colnago - double downtube (i am thinking first generation carbon, and Titanium - Bititan') someone please correct if made out of steel

http://www.chariandconyc.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/dsc_04797.jpg

 

[L'arriviste]

... Rayner's Colnago - double downtube (i am thinking first generation carbon, and Titanium - Bititan') someone please correct if made out of steel

http://www.chariandconyc.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/dsc_04797.jpg

Thanks for the sentiments there, tubularglue. Terrible what happened to your friend.

Re the bike, yes you're right, it's early Ti. It was astronomically expensive.

And Buckler rode Suntour groupsets too!

 

[tubularglue]

pic above,

the planets align.

nice seeing a saddle which is used suntour superbe(pro) those were the days, when bikes seldom cracked

a gentleman brings one into the shop to have it serviced

they were made in carbon also (rominger) no ?

 

[masking_agent]

nice trip back down memory lane.

thanks for that.

 

[alberto.legstrong]

http://www.cartesio-episteme.net/calcio/ciclismo.htm



this is by far the best site for photos/newpaper i have come across link below / scroll down on page for diff/riders

http://archiviofoto.unita.it/index.php?valorernd=2&pagina=2&codset=SPR&cod=1844&pg=1

Thanks a lot, TubGlue, Nice!! Flickr is blocked at work (probably not enough modestly dressed women).

That went straight to the bookmarks.

 

[tubularglue]

http://ciclismohistoria.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html