Bike porn

Interesting colour for a porn bike...

What's that little dingus on the rear shift lever?

Portacatena lever.
Around 1979 Campagnolo designed a system to speed up wheel changes. Pressing that dingus let rear derailleur shift past the smallest cog and onto a crescent shaped chain rest bolted to the inside of the dropout.
Many frames can be dated by looking for the two mounting holes on the dropout.
Portacatena never gained much use and disappeared by the early 1980s.

Huh, nice idea.

they offered to panto my name on a Colnago stem for $10!

That’s roughly £80 in today’s money though.

Still present on my 1982 Gios, it came without the portacatena from new and I never felt the need to find one.

Cadex prototype

https://www.triathlete.com/gallery/spy-s­hots-of-kristian-blummenfelts-new-protot­ype-cadex-tri-bike/
https://www.bikeradar.com/news/kristian-­blummenfelt-cadex-triathlon-bike/?utm_so­urce=Adestra&utm_medium=Email&utm_conten­t=BRR&utm_campaign=Newsletter%2006%2F05_­1798169_BikeRadar_Newsletters_7822350&im­age=1&type=gallery&gallery=1&embedded_sl­ideshow=1
https://cyclingtips.com/2022/05/tt-bikes­-sans-uci-rules-faster-or-fashion/

I want. Would be a funky touring bike. Or a city bike. It's a boris bike on steroids.

Cadex prototype

Had to check which thread I was in, hard to believe Giant have taken 30 years to make MCR 2.0 even uglier than the OG

#overachieve

That is a form of art. Brilliant!

for sale here https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195035027787

Serotta is super clean for a 40 year old bike.
Plus it has Portacatena dropouts!
This must be one of the oldest Serottas around. I think he started in the early 70s.

Is nudity allowed in bike porn?

Yes !

Wow, not much of a fork crown there...

I always thought that DA crank and BB was the duck's guts, with the hollow forgings and the needle bearings, but the set I have isn't even anodised; it's just poxy old clearcoat! WTF Shimano.

Hey, why does it look like a steel copy of an old Cannondale?

...Hey hey, doesn't that pair of Gatorskins demote it to GBP?

Hey, why does it look like a steel copy of an old Cannondale?

It's supposed to be exactly that

Is there a Belle Epoque thread? Pending a better place, these from Imperial St Petersburg

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That cyclist on the right puts it in the hipster thread.

He did it before it was cool though.

https://pignolefixe.microco.sm/conversat­ions/337725/?offset=3225

clean lines

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clean lines

Should have gone to Specsavers