Low Profile Timeline?

[FINNEY1973]

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Cheers Ian, most constructive!

This is proving much more inconclusive than I anticipated - no bugger puts any dates on the photo's they upload or link on the net!

Cheers Shaun - look forward to seeing the homemade machine you are going to upload.

This one has always puzzled me (been on sale about a year or so) - states limited turning circle & not suitable for the road yet it's geared to the hilt. Built for a specific race stage that was one long straight perhaps? http://www.retrospectivecycles.com/track-bike-olmo/ Again, there's no year but the groupset is '84 - '87

 

[Old Ned]

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This one has always puzzled me (been on sale about a year or so) - states limited turning circle & not suitable for the road yet it's geared to the hilt. Built for a specific race stage that was one long straight perhaps? http://www.retrospectivecycles.com/track-bike-olmo/ Again, there's no year but the groupset is '84 - '87

I reckon that's a home made job looking at the 'normal' headset top and level top tube. Turning circle is limited because the stem is bolted to the fork steerer tube through an insufficiently wide slot in the headtube, probably copying Fignon's and Hinault's TdF Gitane TT bikes which used a similar design - but professionally executed. I'll bet the 'builder' thought he would use it in TT's and then realised that he wouldn't be able to get round corners - let alone roundabouts etc. - so gave up on it.

 

[FINNEY1973]

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I reckon that's a home made job ............... so gave up on it.

I'd suggest that synopsis is spot on and the only really plausible explanation. Given that the steerer and headtube has been 'altered' would this mean that it's structurally ruined? As much as I enjoy these homemade creations there are times when you wonder why people embark on such flights of fancy if they aren't 100% guaranteed of the outcome!