Re: [CR] 84 Us team TTT pics

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To: <sbirmingham@mindspring.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:47:30 -0400
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Subject: Re: [CR] 84 Us team TTT pics


Wow, Steve, great job. That is one historical, unusual and interesting bike!

I assume that is a Mike Melton project?

It looks to have an extremely low bottom bracket... Is that the case?

Thanks for showing that to us!

Dale

Dale Brown Greensboro, North Carolina USA

-----Original Message----- From: Steve Birmingham <sbirmingham@mindspring.com> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Wed, Aug 26, 2009 6:04 pm Subject: [CR] 84 Us team TTT pics

I finally finished the restoration/reconstruction/whatever you'd call it of one of the TTT bikes from the US 1984 Olympic team. Likely a spare, since they made about 12 of them and of course only 4 were used for the Olympics.

The team modified it sometime later probably in 85. The shifting was moved from a single barcon to the downtube, and it got a partial repaint and new stickers. The old stickers are still visible under the paint if you look at just the right angle.

I did no repainting or replacing of stickers, but I did have to make many of the special parts. 60mm oln front hub with spokes threading into the flange, 108mm rear hub with 4 speed and threaded flange on the non-drive side, and handlebars. Some other parts had to be modified or I got lucky and found an already modified part.

Some really trick details, tiny headset, and brake routing through the fork crown, shift cable run through the dropout, Modified AX brake under the chainstays....

http://www.mindspring.com/~sblackstone/84-1.jpg

http://www.mindspring.com/~sblackstone/84-2.jpg

http://www.mindspring.com/~sblackstone/84-3.jpg

http://www.mindspring.com/~sblackstone/84-4.jpg

Big fun doing this one, but loads of work. And lots of figuring out what to make or look for.

I've also got to say that putting this back together as a complete bike has been a community effort in lots of ways. So big thanks to anyone I got parts from, and also to everyone that just makes the hobby enjoyable and adds to things even in some small way. I may have done the work, but I truly couldn't have done it without the whole group.

Steve Birmingham
Lowell, Massachusetts
USA