Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

Here is Coppi racing up the Stelvio pass in 1953. I haven't been to that part of Italy (yet).

JamesMcD wrote: I very much want to own a bicycle configured like this, but I do not know what it is called and thus cannot search for it. Colonel Sanders here is not the only dude I've seen on one of these.

That thing is cool looking. Wonder how it rides. I bet Sheldon knows what it is called.

ditchdigger wrote: The difference in quality of Craftsman wrenches. Both USA made 13mm. New on the right, 5 years old on the left.

Forgive my ignorance, but what's wrong with them? Is it the thinness of the new wrench?

What's the tattoo?

SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: Michelle Jenneke makes me want to watch the Olympics now.

914Driver wrote: What's the tattoo?

SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: Michelle Jenneke makes me want to watch the Olympics now.

It's an Aussie Flag

T.J. wrote:

JamesMcD wrote:

That thing is cool looking. Wonder how it rides.

T.J. wrote: Here is Coppi racing up the Stelvio pass in 1953. I haven't been to that part of Italy (yet).

In the BIG ring, no less!!!

Andy Hampsten on Gavia circa 1988 (for those of you that can't read).

SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: Michelle Jenneke makes me want to watch the Olympics now.

only one small problem ... she didn't qualify ... won't be there

edit: Joey beat me to it .. the Olympics are a lesser place by her absence

smog7 wrote:

ditchdigger wrote: The difference in quality of Craftsman wrenches. Both USA made 13mm. New on the right, 5 years old on the left.

Forgive my ignorance, but what's wrong with them? Is it the thinness of the new wrench?

thin metal and smaller - barely there, in fact - "teeth" to grip with

JoeyM wrote:

smog7 wrote:

ditchdigger wrote: The difference in quality of Craftsman wrenches. Both USA made 13mm. New on the right, 5 years old on the left.

Forgive my ignorance, but what's wrong with them? Is it the thinness of the new wrench?

thin metal and smaller - barely there, in fact - "teeth" to grip with

Also, look how far offset the hole is on the right one. Guess it was a lazy day at the factory...

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mk2mer wrote:

T.J. wrote: Here is Coppi racing up the Stelvio pass in 1953. I haven't been to that part of Italy (yet).

In the BIG ring, no less!!! Andy Hampsten on Gavia circa 1988 (for those of you that can't read).

That was an epic ride by Andy that day.

T.J. wrote:

JamesMcD wrote: I very much want to own a bicycle configured like this, but I do not know what it is called and thus cannot search for it. Colonel Sanders here is not the only dude I've seen on one of these.

That thing is cool looking. Wonder how it rides. I bet Sheldon knows what it is called.

Sheldon is dead.

Those are some seriously big tires for that time period.

DoctorBlade wrote:

Name the Metal! Bee owner!