Also, this bike just looks so hot-can't stop staring! It looks like I have another keeper (or at least super long-term-er).ġ8.7 lb fully ready, as pictured. Smooth arcs in cornering, but you have to "pull it down" into it as it will take a high line as opposed to diving into a corner or "falling into" it naturally. It's really low when in the drops, and the exquisite 7400 Dura-Ace levers flare out and make brake actuation in the drops a stretch, buuuuuut it's just a wonderful ride. Loves to rock back and forth and climb and accelerate out of the saddle. Very very smooth and absorbing of minor bumps and vibrations in the road. I've had to look down a few times to see if I had a flat tire. Except for my Land Shark (also Prestige), in that it's equally good but different in magic ride quality. So on they went to the Epic.Īnd well, it's like Tange Prestige but even better. The Peloton was muuuuuch better, but I removed the pieces to be able to sell the frameset. Well, all of these components (on the Epic now) were on my now-sold '85 Peloton frameset, which were on a '91 Cannodale SR800 frameset before being removed due to the Cannondale's lack of cooperation with them (ride and out of saddle climbing) and me. We are laying on the floor of my "smallest frame size I can comfortably fit " and I further tell myself if it's a "meh" ride or just plain too small, then I know the parts I will put on it and can sell it quickly, thus keeping with my fleet reduction plan. It measured what I would call a "62cm enough" frame (CTT), even if in the catalog it was spec'd as a 60cm CTC. It "did not help" that it was in great shape with only minor clear coat fish-eyeing in a couple of spots (for the carbon) along with nary a dent or scrape. I see it on a Tuesday night when volunteering, measure it in some critical dims, and tell myself I'm going to come in the next day (I had it and the rest of the week off) and triple check my measurements, and if that's good, then pick it up. Then one week it's on the peg as a frameset with shifters and a BB (7-speed Shimano 105).
I measured this anyway, and it was near 62cm CTT.Ī few more weeks go by and this thing is still there. I knew it was big by looking at it, but also knew through research that Specialized didn't make stuff that was truly my size. The back of the warehouse is stuffed with bikes, but of course, any decently trained eye can spot the special ones quickly. This frameset was a mostly-complete bike (sans wheels and chain, at least) that leaned against a wooden rack near the back of the warehouse section of a local non-profit bike ship that I and others volunteer at.
Steel topped out at 62cm CTT, and carbon at 60cm CTC. Why an American company would not offer a 63 or 64cm version of any of their bikes when everyone else did, is beyond me. I will try to get a non-indoor photo of this soon, but here is my first-ever vintage carbon fiber framed bike! For us tall guys that need 63cm+ frames, Specialized never made anything "for us", at least for a while initially, which has always baffled me. There certainly are some very beautiful steeds posted here, I'm certainly very glad I joined! I also wondered if anybody knew anything about T-Gear? I saw in an earlier post that others also couldn't get any results on Google because I'd like to know exactly what my bike is.I did also come across the Aegis site but it seemed just like you said Chuckk that it's not really what you might expect, with no specifications anywhere or anything to do with their older models. I took the DH to another local shop for a potential replacement with no luck so my other choice was having it welded or another one made, costing more than what I paid for the bike itself I think I will check out those links you all suggested and see if I can find one or else I will have to fly back home and make one myself on my little table-top milling machine. I haven't had much luck with it in terms of bottom bracket replacement in an incompetent local shop and added to that was a broken derailleur hanger. Firstly, thank you very much Robbie for uploading my pictures! Also, thank you to everybody who chipped in for some info on the bike! I have it a few months now but I prefer to use it in dry weather only since I have a daily for commuting to work but it took me so long to get any information at all on it so it's been idle for a while.