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vaxn8r wrote:
You guys crack me up. Everyone knows that US Postal/Discovery ride aluminum bikes. Look real close and you can see the toothpaste welds. At least I heard that somewhere...from a reliable source, I think.
Sorta like the Huffy bikes (made by Serrota) riden by the 1984 US Olympic team? Re-badging is not uncommon. Remember, Lemond rode a re-badged Calfee (Carbon Frames) in TDF.
The reality is that they could be on the WalMart special of the week and still kick most of our colletive butts. :-)
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vaxn8r wrote:
Skuke, seriously, if there is a LA bike, and Trek "wants to recover the costs of the molds, then why don't they sell it? When I check their website they only sell CF frames in 2 cm increments. Not only that, when I compare my 1997 catalog (pre-LA) to today's catalog, they still only offer the same exact sizes. Same ST lengths. Same TT lengths. Same angles. What am I missing?
Sell the mold? or sell the bikes made from LA's mold?
I think you can see the various reasons why selling the mold would be out of the question.
If I was not clear (again), I think they DO sell the bikes made from LA's mold (thus recovering costs). It would be cost prohibitive to make a mold for LA, create 10 bikes (or whatever) for him then shelve the mold. Fortunately, LA is about a regular size guy and "his" frame only needs to be tweaked. As Lon suggests, the other frames are then based on his 58cm frame sized for consistency.
In 1997, Trek would not have made a custom mold and frame for a "has been" racer with cancer. LA raced what he was given. He might have kicked butt with the Wal Mart special.
Again, I have no proof for any of this. But it certainly sounds more than reasonable to me for a company to do these things when so much is at stake.
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Skuke
95 Carbonframes Tetra Pro
92 Bridgestone MB-1
90 Moser 51.151
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