(which fits with the CR timeline).
I was surprised by an article about Darrel McCulloch and his work for the Australian national cycling team. In particular, he stated, "The life expectancy for these bikes is 12 months at the maximum" (article written June 2006).
http://www.llewellynbikes.com/
For any CR members who were sponsored racers in the 1970's and early 1980's, what do you think was the life expectancy of your bike ?? Was it 1 year, 2 years, 3 years?
What was a typical failure mode - A crash? A tube separating or starting to tear? A braze-on that broke-off ?? Or is it just that the bike looks ragged and - the factory or the sponsor is not set up to do repaints ?? Thanx.
- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA