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gophishin
路This EM is fantastic, I love great old steel frames with modern gruppos. I also have a soft spot for the Cinelli super corsas - any pictures of that one?
Thanks! Well...Some of them.
But not nearly as much as they deserve (and I need). I am a fat middle aged guy and would benefit from using them daily.
As you can see they are all the same framesize (59cm c/c +/- 1cm) so I have always had the intention of riding them. I would not collect a bike that was not my size. And though some of them are really old they are all built to be used - with NOS bearings, freewheels and chains, etc. They are ready to use. This collection has accumulated over a very long period. So long that some of the bikes were bought new by me, then used in racing and then suddenly one day I realized they were vintage... I started training in the early 80-ies and started collecting vintage bikes and parts in the mid 80-ies. At that time Campagnolos Nuovo and Super Record parts were replaced with C-record and the older parts were almost given away by the shops (and I got a lot). At that time I used the C-record parts on my new bikes and today they are as sought after by collectors as the older parts.
For serious bicycling (seriously...I just pose... I am in a really lousy shape). This old Merckx MX Leader in Merckx own mix of Columbus Max tubing. This was the last hooray of the steel frames in professional racing in the mid 90-ies. After that alu and carbon took over. These colours were used by the Motorola team. I built it up with modern parts - a Campagnolo Super Record 11 group when that came on the market around 2009. Good mix of traditional and modern.
