Recent content by Rapparee87

It's Campag! 😁

To the barricades!! The fightback starts here!!

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He's well used to pain I guess.

Sloping top tubes. Just say NO!! 😁

Perfection. It should be in an art gallery. 👍 But quite right that it should be ridden. Enjoy those dry road miles.

Saw it back in the day, it's definitely the adult end of the market! 😈 😛

Responsible for turning a nation off the French!

She could easily pass for a rider of today.

If David Walsh, who brought down Lance Armstrong remember, believes that Pogacar is clean then that's good enough for me.

It would be impossible anyway to tell if they were on any pro bikes as the components look totally indistinguishable from all the other crappy carbon rubbish.... Campag used to be recognisable from any distance.. Mind you that horrible new rear derailleur must be visible even from space 😁

Didn't the WordPerfect team of the late 80s early 90s use SunTour? Van Hooydonck may have won a Flanders with it, but I'm open to correction.

Nice to know us retros are cool!

Agreed!

That's starting to make sense, in the late 70s here in Ireland, my pal who was 12 at the time got an Eddy Merckx bike for his birthday, and it was HUGE. Does anyone else remember these Eddys? It wasn't a lightweight or anything. Had a diamond shape logo on the head tube, with a black and white...