Okay not MTB but weren't the 7-11 Murray Racing Team bikes built by Serotta?
Definately made by Serrotta but weren't the Huffys? I thought they were for the olympics as well. The manager of a local shop used to have one that needed a top tube replacement. It was up on a wall and really neat.Luther said:Okay not MTB but weren't the 7-11 Murray Racing Team bikes built by Serotta?
Huffy did sponsor them for a while, and yes Serotta made the frames. The old Wheelsmith bike shop in Palo Alto used to have one hanging on their wall.Boy named SSue said:Definately made by Serrotta but weren't the Huffys?
Wheelsmith, now Mike's Bikes, just moved locations a few blocks down the street (actually closer to a SuperSlo!).laffeaux said:Huffy did sponsor them for a while, and yes Serotta made the frames. The old Wheelsmith bike shop in Palo Alto used to have one hanging on their wall.
In fact they used to have a lot of cool old bikes on their wall, I wonder what happened to them?
scant said:Theres many classic examples of certain riders using their non sponsored equipment which I've always found kinda amusing:
classic examples could be, Tomacs mongoose (FAT chrs FBinfact Tomes has had a lot! Giant hardtail> Yeti, Intense M1> Giant..)
Tim Goulds Peugeot (Roberts)
GT cyclocross bikes> curtlo?
Bryan Lopes GT slalom> 3D?
any other examples anyone can think of?
Pretty sure that Team Raleigh/Moots frameset was up on ebay a couple of years ago. Seller was from Kansas and it was a fillet brazed frame with the old Raleigh road colors from the 80s. Shoulda got it. I thought it looked like a Landshark.velomental said:The very first Norba National one day Championship was won by Steve Tilford, riding for the US based Levi's - Raleigh Team on a Moots Mountaineer painted in Raleigh team colors and decaled as a Raleigh. It was Tilfords first mountain bike race and if I recall correctly it took nearly five hours to complete due to very muddy conditions. Tilford has always been fast on the bike but he can also run like a deer!
That is super cool! And looks to be just my size...terminaut said:
It's part of the "permanent" collection.Fillet-brazed said:And looks to be just my size...![]()
That's cool if they still have it. The old Wheelsmith (where I saw it) was in downtown PA though - about a block from Palo Alto Bikes. It was the shop they were in prior to moving out toward Page Mill Road. That shop was cool - lots of displays on the wall. In the early to mid 90s that shop and Palo Alto (before the rennovations) both had top notch mountain bikes for sale. Palo Alto Bikes used to have more high end bikes then any shop that I'd ever been to - now it's mostly roadie stuff.Rumpfy said:Wheelsmith, now Mike's Bikes, just moved locations a few blocks down the street (actually closer to a SuperSlo!).
They still have the same bunch of old road bikes and misc. stuff hanging in the shop. I'm pretty sure the 7-11 colored Huffy is there.
Oh wow. That was a while back. So you were about to pull the trigger huh? I'll get some pics of it. Its almost done. I'll need to be a bit light on it from what I hear.terminaut said:It's part of the "permanent" collection.
BTW, you got that old Litespeed off eBay just before I was going to Buy-Now on it!!! That's problably for the better, though. I likely would have hurt myself trying to ride it (and breaking the fork!) on some technical trail.
http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=24007&highlight=fat+ritchey+madefloibex said:... don myrah's yeti in his first races for team yeti/campagnolo was the ritchey he rode before. just colored in yeti's blue.
looks very skinny this "yeti"
ciao
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